The Gqeberha high court has ordered that the doctor treating racketeering and fraud accused Andrea Wessels be subpoenaed to explain why Wessels is unable to travel from Gauteng to stand trial.
The racketeering and corruption trial involving former municipal officials, business people and a lawyer was put on hold on Tuesday after the Gqeberha high court was told that one of the accused was unfit to travel to the city to stand trial.
Former Nelson Mandela Bay ANC boss Zandisile Qupe has six months to cough up R1.28m owed to the National Treasury, or his luxury Theescombe home will go under the hammer.
Details of how fraud and corruption accused Zandisile Qupe was paid nearly R3m to act as a “political influencer” while he was a leader of the ANC in Nelson Mandela Bay emerged in court on Thursday as the Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) applied to have his luxury family home forfeited to the state.
A former state prosecutor admitted that he was reluctant to charge ex-EP Rugby president Cheeky Watson, explaining the multimillion-rand fraud case was never meant to be a “Cheeky Watson trial”.