{"id":47743,"date":"2026-10-12T16:12:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47743"},"modified":"2026-10-12T16:12:40","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:12:40","slug":"sa-suspended-deputy-national-police-commissioner-resigns","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-suspended-deputy-national-police-commissioner-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"SA suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>South Africa&#8217;s (SA) suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner Shadrack Sibiya has resigned from the South African Police Service (SAPS).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Police National Spokesperson Athlenda Mathe says Sibiya&#8217;s lawyer tendered the resignation after the disciplinary hearing against him <span dir=\"ltr\">this Monday morning<\/span>.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0Sibiya had an ongoing disciplinary case against him at the time of his resignation.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Mathe says Sibiya&#8217;s employment with the Service has been terminated with immediate effect.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014ChannelAfrica\u2014<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":24101,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-47743","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":" Sibiya had an ongoing disciplinary case against him at the time of his resignation. ","published_date":"","news_description":" Sibiya had an ongoing disciplinary case against him at the time of his resignation. ","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47744,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47743\/revisions\/47744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}