Former social development minister Bathabile Dlamini is accused of giving false evidence under oath at an inquiry instituted by the Constitutional Court in 2018 into the payments fiasco at the SA Social Security Agency.
The State in the perjury case against former social development minister Bathabile Dlamini has managed to get its first witness to testify on Friday after initially seeking a postponement to next year.
While the State requested that the perjury case against former social development minister Bathabile Dlamini be postponed to next year to make arrangements for its first witness, it somehow managed to get him to testify on Friday. This was after the magistrate refused to grant the postponement following a request by the State, citing that it still had to make travel and accommodation arrangements for the witness.