Former Hawks boss finally cleared

Charges against former Hawks boss Anwa Dramat were this week officially withdrawn by the National Prosecuting Authority, three years after he resigned in 2015 and accepted a R3m severance package. The charges, widely believed to have been cooked up by crime intelligence head Richard Mdluli in 2010 for political reasons, related to the illegal rendition of Zimbabwean suspects, who were murdered on their return to Zimbabwe