Deputy National Commissioner:
Human Resource Management and Development

V Singh

Vijayanthimala (Mala) Singh was born in Tongaat, KwaZulu- Natal on 7 January 1957. She matriculated at Raesethorpe Secondary School, Pietermaritzburg in 1973. She started her career as an educator in 1977. In 1985 she became a lecturer at Transvaal College of Education, where she lectured in Psychology of Education, Didactics, History and Guidance and Counselling.

In 1991 she was appointed assistant superintendent of Education and two years later she became a school principal. In 1995 she became the deputy director: research at the South African Management Development Institute (SAMDI) and a year later she became the director: public service reform at the Department of Public Service and Administration, where her core responsibility was to manage and drive the reform programme in the public service. (Dr Singh has been actively involved in the process of transformation in the Police Service since 1995.) She was appointed the Chief Director: Public Service Reform, Transverse, Administrative and Legislative Support in 1997.

In November 1999 she was became one of the first two women in the history of the South African Police Service to be appointed as a Divisional Commissioner: Career Management.

On 24 August 2002 Divisional Commissioner Singh was the first woman Deputy National Commissioner appointed in the history of the South African Police Service. She is responsible for Human Resource Management and Development. She will manage matters relating to Personnel Services, Career Management, Performance Standards and Management, Helping Professions and Legal Services.

Commissioner Singh is married and has one daughter. She holds a Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral degrees from the Universities of Natal and South Africa.

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