Perjury case against former Minister Bathabile Dlamini postponed

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A case against former Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini has been postponed to October 1st.

The ANC Women’s League President Bathabile Dlamini made a brief appearance in the Johannesburg magistrate’s court on Tuesday on a charge of perjury.

Hawks’ Serious Corruption Investigation team in Germiston served the former Minister with a summons to appear in court on a criminal case against her a few weeks ago.

Allegations on this case are that in January 2018, Dlamini appeared as a witness at an Inquiry in Johannesburg in terms of Section 38 of the Superior Court Act 10 of 2013, which was instituted as a result of disputes of the material facts during the previous proceedings in the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) relating to the award of a tender to Cash Paymaster Services (PTY) Ltd also known as CPS, to render services to pay social grants in South Africa.

Dlamini was asked to draw up an affidavit in which she was to explain why she should not be joined to the proceedings in her personal capacity and why she should not pay the costs out of her own pocket. To which it was found that there were conflicting statements in the affidavit.

Presiding over the case, ConCourt’s Acting Judge, Judge Bernard Ngoepe’s findings suggested very strongly that some of the former Minister’s evidence under oath before the ConCourt and the Inquiry were false.

The case was postponed to October 1 to allow for docket disclosure by the defence, according to the NPA.