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Prosecutors told the court they were planning to examine them on Friday. Hlophe, however, said they had elected not to come and “didn’t take this seriously”. “This borders on contempt. I am very angry. Nobody wastes his time,” he said. The matter against Bongo comes after former president Jacob Zuma announced, in 2017, an inquiry into the power utility following several allegations of corruption. According to an initial affidavit by Vanara, who was the inquiry’s evidence leader at the time, Bongo asked him to fake an illness and take sick leave because the inquiry could not procee...

The trial of corruption accused ANC MP Bongani Bongo was abruptly postponed on Tuesday. Parliamentary staff called as witnesses frustrated Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe when they failed to appear in court. Proceedings are set to resume on Friday. "Nobody wastes my time." This was the stern warning Western Cape Judge John Hlophe gave State prosecutors who were left red-faced when their witnesses failed to appear in court to testify in the corruption trial of ANC MP Bongani Bongo. Bongo, a former state security minister, has pleaded not guilty to a corruption charge emanating from an...

Bongani Bongo’s legal representative has accused Parliament’s former senior manager in charge of legal and constitutional services, Ntuthuzelo Vanara, of implicating the former State Security minister in corruption for political reasons.

ANC MP and former state security minister Bongani Bongo has pleaded not guilty to a charge of attempting to bribe a senior parliamentary official in a bid to disrupt an inquiry into Eskom.

ANC MP Bongo pleads not guilty to bribing Parly legal advisor Bongo appeared in the Western Cape High Court on Monday to face charges of allegedly offering to pay a parliamentary official to derail an inquiry into Eskom in 2017. FILE: Home Affairs committee chairperson Bongani Bongo. Picture: GCIS. 41 days ago CAPE TOWN - African National Congress (ANC) MP Bongani Bongo has pleaded not guilty to corruption and allegedly bribing a parliamentary legal advisor. Bongo appeared in the Western Cape High Court o...