Kaveel Singh, News24
Businessman Thoshan Panday and his co-accused appeared in the Durban Magistrate s Court.
They are accused of fraud, corruption and racketeering charges in connection with a 2010 FIFA World Cup tender.
The matter was transferred to the KwaZulu-Natal High Court.
The corruption case of controversial Durban businessman Thoshan Panday and his co-accused has been transferred to the KwaZulu-Natal High Court for a pre-trial conference.
Panday and his co-accused, General Mmamonnye Ngobeni and Colonel Navin Madhoe, appeared in the Durban Magistrate s Court on Thursday on fraud, corruption and racketeering charges that relate to a 2010 FIFA world cup tender.
They are expected to return to court on 8 February 2021 for the pre-trial proceedings, Investigating Directorate spokesperson Sindisiwe Twala said.
Clive Ndou Former ANC eMalahleni regional leader Arthur Zwane.
Senior ANC member in Newcastle, Arthur Zwane, who is facing attempted murder charges for allegedly shooting a security guard who asked him to sanitise his hands, will spend Christmas a free man.
The eMadadeni Magistrate Court granted him bail after he spent close to two weeks in jail. Zwane and two others were arrested last month after the incident at a Newcastle hardware store.
An ANC member close to Zwane said the former eMalahleni regional chairperson was released on bail on Wednesday.
Zwane, who is also a former ANC KwaZulu-Natal provincial executive committee (PEC) member, has had brushes with the law before.
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The lead prosecutor in the R430-million Durban Solid Waste (DSW) graft case involving former eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede, city manager Sipho Nzuza, Nzuza’s wife, senior councillor Mondli Mthembu, officials and service providers, asked a Durban Magistrates’ Court on Thursday for almost four months’ grace to catalogue and digitise a mass of documents before handover, much to the annoyance of the defence.
Senior prosecutor Ashika Lucken further told magistrate Dawn Somaroo that only once all of the documents had been compiled and digitally collated, would a preliminary indictment be made available. Lucken asked the court for 3½ months to get the documents in order.