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Today’s sitting will be a pre-trial proceeding that will include setting the dates for the leading of evidence and cross-examination of witnesses by legal teams.
The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal has blamed the justice system, political abuse of state organs and an inability by its national structure to provide clear guidelines on how to deal with a growing cohort of criminally charged individuals for its decision to allow Zandile Gumede to remain in her provincial legislature post. Gumede, who is facing graft charges for her alleged role in a R430-million tender racket involving Durban Solid Waste (DSW) collection contracts in the eThekwini metro when she was mayor, was earlier this week given an all-clear by the governing party’s provincial integrity commi...
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 m...