Journalist Jacques Pauw off the hook after V&A Waterfront restaurant withdraws criminal charge 01 April 2021 - 16:24 Image: PHILL MAGAKOE
The veteran investigative journalist and author of the book
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President’s Keepers became the news when he claimed in his Daily Maverick article that he had been mistreated by police, arrested and detained following an incident at a restaurant at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town.
In the article he claimed he had lost R1,000. He later withdrew the claim.
According to Eric Ntabazalila, spokesperson for the National Prosecuting Authority in the Western Cape, the journalist had faced a charge of fraud, alternatively theft.
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