{"id":71990,"date":"2026-02-09T01:04:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T01:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/71990\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T01:04:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T01:04:59","slug":"appeal-court-split-over-phahlanes-dismissal-but-confirms-his-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/71990\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal court split over Phahlane\u2019s dismissal but confirms his exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Labour Appeal Court of South Africa has delivered a split decision in the case of Kgomotso Phahlane, the former acting national commissioner of the South African Police Service (SAPS), who challenged his dismissal on the grounds of procedural and substantive unfairness. While the court ultimately dismissed his appeal, the two judgments revealed a sharp<br \/>divide in reasoning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">To read this full story, Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.magzter.com\/ZA\/Fundudzi-Media\/Sunday-World\/Newspaper\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to buy the e-edition of Sunday World.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.magzter.com\/ZA\/Zucorizon-Pty-Ltd\/Sunday-World\/Newspaper\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.magzter.com\/ZA\/Zucorizon-Pty-Ltd\/Sunday-World\/Newspaper<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                                                <a href=\"https:\/\/sundayworld.co.za\/author\/setumo\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" title=\"Setumo Stone\" class=\"author url fn\" target=\"_blank\">Setumo Stone<\/a>                                                                                                                                                                                                <\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Labour Appeal Court of South Africa has delivered a split decision in the case of Kgomotso Phahlane,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[41534,2734,38387,41535,41536,41537,4835,41538,41539,41540,131,1689,41541,41542,41543],"class_list":{"0":"post-71990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-acting-national-commissioner","9":"tag-constitution","10":"tag-dismissal","11":"tag-ethemba-group","12":"tag-kgomotso-phahlane","13":"tag-labour-appeal-court","14":"tag-labour-court","15":"tag-lead","16":"tag-misconduct","17":"tag-procedural","18":"tag-south-africa","19":"tag-south-african-police-service","20":"tag-split-decision","21":"tag-substantive","22":"tag-unfairness"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/116037990660245455","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}