Bathabile Dlamini

2022 - 3 - 9

perjury

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Be lenient on me ... I only earn R110,000 a month, pleads Bathabile ... (TimesLIVE)

The Johannesburg magistrate's court - which found Dlamini guilty of perjury - will issue sentence on April 1.

The ConCourt said the inquiry found Dlamini appointed individuals to lead the parallel work streams and those individuals reported to her. “I am finding that the state has succeeded to prove the main count of perjury. “If you begin to trivialise this offence, and say it’s‘just perjury’, we will be making a mockery of our justice system. The case was later moved to a different courtroom. ... however, we will wait until the sentence is passed,” he said. “When one looks at the position of the accused, a former minister at national level, if this kind sort of offences can be perpetuated at that level, what then should become of people down there? At the pinnacle of this offence is accountability. “We would like to submit that direct imprisonment is not far-fetched in this instance. At the pinnacle of this offence is accountability. One is 26 and the youngest 19. Her parents are both still alive and she’s responsible for them,” he said. “Out of this income, she needs to maintain herself, her household ... being a single parent.

Court affirms Bathabile Dlamini lied under oath; battle now begins ... (Daily Maverick)

Bathabile Dlamini was found guilty of perjury by magistrate Betty Khumalo in the Johannesburg Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, in relation to her testimony ...

The inquiry found that Dlamini denied under oath that she appointed parallel work streams to ensure Sassa could take over the payment of social grants from Cash Paymaster Services and that they reported to her. The inquiry found that she had appointed these work streams and that they did report to her. According to the report, the deputy minister in the Presidency, Pinky Kekana, led the charge for Dlamini to step aside, but others in the NWC said Dlamini was being targeted by a “patriarchy” and should only step aside if she is found guilty. In 2003, she was one of the MPs convicted of fraud (R254,000 service benefits/mileage claims) in the Western Cape High Court in the Travelgate scandal, in which a number of MPs were found to have abused their travel vouchers to the cost of R18-million (R11-million was never recouped). Dlamini was then sentenced to a fine of R120,000 or five years’ imprisonment and a further five years’ imprisonment suspended conditionally for five years. “We had already set up committees and when the shutdown came the provinces were here for auditing membership,” she said. The ANC Women’s League (ANCWL) president, Bathabile Dlamini, lied under oath while she was minister of social development.

NPA wants imprisonment or hefty fine for Bathabile Dlamini after ... (Independent Online)

Former Cabinet minister's defence informs court that she could soon lose R70 000 a month she receives as ANC Women's League president and depends on R40 000 ...

Dlamini, Mphahlane said, used the R40 000 to maintain herself as well as her household as she was a single parent. In determining her actual income to be considered by this court, I would submit the court considers R40 000,” he said. ”It is therefore imperative that the community out there should see the justice system in action. It is my finding that she did, in both instances,” Magistrate Betty Khumalo found. This is what we want from our public servants,” he said. Secondly, that she testified and gave false evidence at the section 38 inquiry in that she gave out that the work streams did not report directly to her and that she did not meet with them for them to give her direct reporting.

ANCWL still studying Bathabile Dlamini's perjury judgment (Eyewitness News)

JOHANNESBURG - The African National Congress Women's League (ANCWL) on Thursday noted that ruling in the perjury case against its president Bathabile Dlamini ...

This has reignited the debate around her fate as the league’s president as the ANC’s step aside rule dictates that all party members accused of crime should step down from office. This has reignited the debate around her fate as the league’s president as the ANC’s step aside rule dictates that all party members accused of crime should step down from office.

State argues Bathabile Dlamini's punishment should be felt at ... (News24)

The State wants the harshest possible punishment for former social development minister Bathabile Dlamini after she was found guilty of lying under oath.

Court finds Bathabile Dlamini guilty of perjury (Business Day)

Johannesburg magistrate Betty Khumalo made the determination on Wednesday afternoon after several technical glitches. Khumalo said she was satisfied that ...

The Constitutional Court said the inquiry found that Dlamini appointed individuals to lead the parallel work streams and those individuals reported to her. Dlamini denied lying under oath when she said the workstreams did not report to her. “I am finding that the state has succeeded to prove the main count of perjury.