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Ducking Mdluli shot down!
Comments Disgraced cop Richard Mdluli is serving a five-year prison term for kidnapping and assault. Photo by Gallo Images .
FORMER crime intelligence boss Richard Mdluli appeared in the North Gauteng High Court in Tshwane yesterday to submit an application to have Judge Bert Bam recused.
But his application was dismissed.
Bam said the application bordered on mala fide, or intention to deceive, and the defence’s argument was without substance.
Initially, Bam was meant to preside over the NPA’s application which sought to bar Mdluli from causing any delays in his pending corruption and theft court case related to the police’s secret slush fund.
First published in Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper
Like every year in South Africa, 2020 has seen its share of miscreants and moegoes. And yet it somehow feels as if there were more of them this year. Our heaving beast of a country is overrun with people merrily going about their business violating every law in the statute books, every commandment etched in stone, every tenet of basic human decency. Then there are those who might stay on the right side of the law but cannot help from straying across the border between common sense and sheer idiocy. Here, then, is this year’s roll of dishonour, in no particular order.