Setumo Stone
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Mkhwebane discharge reopens Dyantyi's key dishonesty findings (opens the original)
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Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s acquittal on perjury charges has reopened the factual foundation of one of the most damaging findings in Parliament’s report recommending her removal: that she deliberately gave dishonest accounts under oath about meetings with former president Jacob Zuma during the Absa-Bankorp investigation. The Section 194 Committee chaired by Qubudile Dyantyi treated disputed affidavits, handwritten notes and witness evidence as proof of intentional dishonesty. The criminal case
Setumo Stone | How ConCourt's findings against Mkhwebane failed criminal threshold (opens the original)
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The critical findings of the Constitutional Court’s 2019 majority judgment against former Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane may have legally failed to survive the test of evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. This follows Mkhwebane’s formal acquittal on perjury charges by the Pretoria Magistrates’ Court this week, effectively closing a high-stakes criminal saga that has divided the country’s legal fraternity for years. READ MORE: State’s retreat in Mkhwebane perjury battle changes complexion of
Setumo Stone | How Sibiya’s affidavit puts ‘Mr M’ at the heart of the state’s case (opens the original)
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A new version of events before the Randburg Regional Court has shifted the centre of the case against suspended deputy national police commissioner Shadrack Sibiya from the five charges on the charge sheet to one man identified only as “Mr M”. The charge sheet presents two sets of allegations: three counts of alleged sexual grooming of a 16-year-old girl, plus trafficking and rape charges involving adult women at the Garden Court Hotel and The Grand in Sandton. READ MORE: Sibiya to stay behind b
UJ pension fund pays ex-employee despite ongoing damages fight (opens the original)
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A former University of Johannesburg (UJ) senior administrator, Mzwakhe Matukane is set to receive his pension despite the university’s attempt to keep it frozen while pursuing damages against him in the Labour Court in Johannesburg. The shift follows a September 15 decision by the UJ Pension Fund board that the legal requirements for continued withholding had not been met. Shepstone & Wylie attorney Carlyle Field, acting for the fund, confirmed the decision in a September 23 letter to Piet Tiban
Fadiel Adams takes NPA to court for dropping charges against Fannie Masemola (opens the original)
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MP Fadiel Adams has gone to the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria seeking to overturn National Director of Public Prosecutions Andy Mothibi’s decision to withdraw criminal charges against national police commissioner General Fannie Masemola, arguing that the decision was not rationally connected to the information before the prosecution authority. In court papers dated September 29, Adams, an MP and president of the National Coloured Congress, says the case is a review application directed at Mothi
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