The Bhisho high court has dismissed an application by one of the accused in the Nelson Mandela funeral fraud case to have evidence ruled inadmissible.Former Dr WB Rubusana regional ANC chair Pumlani Mkolo had challenged the admissibility of cellphone records, leading to a trial within a trial in 2020.
An unimpressed high court judge presiding over the trial of accused including former Buffalo City Metro officials and businesspeople has come down hard on the prosecution after yet another postponement.
Bhisho High Court judge Igna Stretch has ruled that allowing information and documents produced by the state after September 9 in the fraud trial of former BCM politicians, officials and business people would be in breach of the accuseds'' rights to a fair hearing.