Mandela corruption case ?a political ploy?
News24
Three of those accused in the Nelson Mandela funeral scandal believe the case is being used to settle political scores.
The trio - former Eastern Cape health MEC Sindiswa Gomba, former Buffalo City mayor Zukiswa Ncitha and former council speaker Luleka Simon-Ndzele - say they want their day in court to clear their names.
Following yet another postponement of their case this week, the three told City Press from the steps of the East London Magistrates Court that they had been waiting for seven years to take the stand and put forward their side of the story, but the state was never ready to start with trial proceedings. They said the case had demonised them in society and was frustrating them personally and politically.
First order of business for Parliament’s home affairs committee on Tuesday was to elect an acting chairperson. No particular reason was given beyond “the chairperson is not in the meeting”.
Less than 24 hours earlier, the chairperson, Bongani Bongo, had been named alongside suspended ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule when ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa closed the three-day National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting.
“… [A] number of ANC members had stepped aside and others had been served with notices of suspension. These include our secretary-general Ace Magashule and NEC member Bongani Bongo.”
Bongo on Tuesday confirmed: “I am suspended,” and that he has also taken leave from Parliament since Friday. He declined to say anything more. But being on leave, particularly long leave, is not an inconsequential matter for a publicly elected lawmaker.
The Square in Bournemoiuth town centre.. A MAN who had a knife, cocaine, heroin and herbal cannabis in Bournemouth Square has been jailed. Mark Callum McElwee, 48, was put behind bars at Poole Magistrates Court after he admitted a series of offences. McElwee, of no fixed abode, had a knife with a 11.5cm blade in the town centre on April 27. The court heard that he also had the class A and class B drugs in his possession. At a hearing on April 28, magistrates committed him to prison for 16 weeks for having the knife and the drugs, which were to be forfeited and destroyed.
Buffalo City Metro councillor, businesswoman due in court over R1.2m fraud case ANC councillor Mthetheleli Kolela and Noxolo Tshaka appeared at the East London Magistrates Court on Tuesday after they were arrested by the Hawks earlier in the day. Picture: SAPS/facebook.com
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JOHANNESBURG A Buffalo City Metro municipal councillor and a businesswoman are due back in court on Wednesday on charges of fraud and money laundering amounting to R1.2 million.
African National Congress (ANC) councillor Mthetheleli Kolela and Noxolo Tshaka appeared at the East London Magistrates Court on Tuesday after they were arrested by the Hawks earlier in the day.