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An Eastern Cape ANC bigwig accused of dipping into the Nelson Mandela funeral fund has failed to persuade the judge in his case to recuse herself.

The application made by suspended Dr WB Rubusana region chair Pumlani Mkolo for a judge presiding over his case and that of 10 others accused of fraud relating to the memorial service of former statesman Nelson Mandela in 2013, was not supported by facts or context. The application “seemed to have been drafted in rather a hurry without proper consideration if only to preserve the proceedings of April 20 2022 in a vacuum”, said judge Igna Stretch when she refused Mkolo’s application for her re...

Monday’s long-awaited Mandela funeral scandal trial at the Bhisho high court against politicians, former Buffalo City Metro officials and businessmen was relegated to the building’s corridors after an electricity outage left the courtroom in the dark. This forced a further delay of the trial, set to run between April and June, as it was postponed to Tuesday by judge Igna Stretch.

Despite the Eastern Cape MEC for health admitting negligence by healthcare workers during the birth of a Somerset East boy 14 years ago, the Bhisho high court in 2021 absolved medical staff of responsibility, finding there was no causal link between staff negligence and the brain injury suffered by the child.