Ndebele faced an internal investigation related to fraud charges and was suspended without pay on August 14.
National police spokesperson Lieut Gen Solomon Makgale then said: “It is alleged that, while recruiting entry level candidates for the Moroka policing area, the officer unprocedurally changed the recommended list of recruits to include three candidates who had not met the SAPS criteria.
“It is believed that the three candidates were known to her at the time of appointment.”
But the SAPS’s internal disciplinary cleared her of any wrongdoing.
Gauteng police spokesperson Brig Neville Malila said that Ndebele was not found guilty internally and would only be facing the criminal charges in the court of law.
He added that the suspension has been lifted and that Ndebele’s salary would be reinstated.
She is also expected to return to work as soon as the human resources department has completed its processes.
Explaining why the hearing was completed in such a short period, Malila said that when a police member is suspended without pay, the hearing needs to be completed within 90 days.
Ndebele’s criminal case was postponed to next year, in the Moroka Magistrates Court, in Soweto.
