Ex South African Top Cop Takes Axing to Court

That sound you hear emanating from under the bus is Mthandazo Berning Ntlemeza, disgraced erstwhile head of the country's prime crime fighting unit, the Hawks, crawling out, application to the Constitutional Court in hand, in a last and desperate bid to get back his top job, writes Marianne Thamm for Daily Maverick.

Hawks police unit vehicles.

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