{"id":62597,"date":"2026-10-12T14:53:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/shadrack-sibiya-leaves-saps-dishonourable-discharge-for-south-africas-deputy-police-chief\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T14:53:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:53:57","slug":"shadrack-sibiya-leaves-saps-dishonourable-discharge-for-south-africas-deputy-police-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/shadrack-sibiya-leaves-saps-dishonourable-discharge-for-south-africas-deputy-police-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadrack Sibiya leaves SAPS: Dishonourable discharge for South Africa’s deputy police chief"},"content":{"rendered":"


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South Africa’s deputy police chief has resigned three weeks after he was charged with sexual offences.<\/b><\/p>\n

A lawyer representing Lt Gen Shadrack Sibiya submitted his resignation letter at his disciplinary hearing on Monday, a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

The charges relate to allegations that he sexually groomed a 16-year-old girl and raped an 18-year-old woman. He is also facing a charge of trafficking.<\/p>\n

Sibiya has denied all the charges. He says he did have sex with the 18 year-old but says it was consensual.<\/p>\n

He has been in custody since he was arrested three weeks ago after his bail application was denied.<\/p>\n

Police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe said in a post on X that his departure from the police force was regarded as a dishonourable discharge, external<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The case comes as the police service is in the spotlight at a major public inquiry over allegations of corruption and collusion with criminals.<\/p>\n

The inquiry, known as the Madlanga Commission, began in September 2025 and has heard accusations that Sibiya received a gift of 20 impalas from an alleged criminal kingpin in exchange for a police contract. <\/p>\n

He denied the allegation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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South Africa’s deputy police chief has resigned three weeks after he was charged with sexual offences. A lawyer representing Lt Gen Shadrack Sibiya submitted his resignation letter at his disciplinary hearing on Monday, a police spokesperson said. The charges relate to allegations that he sexually groomed a 16-year-old girl and raped an 18-year-old woman. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62599,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62597\/revisions\/62599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}