Jan Gerber, News24
The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Friday dismissed Busisiwe Mkhwebane and the EFF s application to appeal the invalidation of her SARS rogue unit report, saying the appeals did not have reasonable prospects of success.
Judge Selby Baqwa confirmed the full Bench s order that Mkhwebane must personally pay 15% of Pravin Gordhan s legal costs in challenging that report, based on her egregious conduct during the case.
Mkhwebane still has the option of petitioning the Supreme Court of Appeal to hear her case, in which she hits out at the worrying trend of courts in issuing personal costs orders against her.
Photo: Adv Busisiwe Mkwebane/Public Protector website
For those who do not know, Rampedi is a critically acclaimed journalist in South Africa who exposed the shenanigans of a secret surveillance unit that operated within SARS. ~ Ayanda Mdluli
IOL 1/12/2019
The importance of the judgment – apart from the obvious – is that it removes all doubts about the veracity of the main planks upon which Mkhwebane, the EFF and other’s contention that the HRIU was engaging in criminal activity has been constructed over the years. The Sikhakhane report, Kroon panel report, KPMG report and the report by the Office of the Inspector-General of Intelligence (OIGI) have since 2015 all been discredited, disavowed, overturned and set aside in some form or another. (Not even to mention the fake reportage of the investigative team at the Sunday Times with Piet Rampedi and Mzilikazi wa Afrika now in senior roles at Iqbal Survé’s Independent Media, maintaining the fiction.) Unlawful and irrational
Judge dismisses Bishop Zondo s application to stop CRL investigative hearings against him with costs 11 December 2020 - 18:03 Image: Gallo Images / Daily Sun / Tumelo Mofokeng A right to privacy does not give a right to secrecy.
These were the words of Judge Leonie Windell who rejected Archbishop Stephen Zondo and Pastor Lydia Malete s urgent interdict to stop the CRL Rights Commission s investigative hearings into alleged sexual abuse, philandering and financial misconduct at the Rivers of Living Waters Ministries.
The pair claimed the hearings had opened them up to public humiliation.
Malete, a senior pastor in the church, was invited by the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities (CRL Rights Commission) to give her testimony on Monday but filed an urgent interdict with Zondo to stop the hearings in response.