Bathabile Dlamini set to appear in court in September for perjury
The Gauteng Director of Public Prosecutions will prosecute former minister of social development Bathabile Dlamini for perjury.
The Black Sash Trust says the Director of Public Prosecutions in Gauteng has decided to prosecute Dlamini for allegedly giving false evidence at a 2018 inquiry.
The charges relate to the testimony Dlamini’s gave before the Constitutional Court in relation to her personal involvement in the social grant crisis.
The apex court handed down judgment in September 2018, finding Dlamini’s conduct had been “reckless and grossly negligent” and ordering her to pay a portion of the costs of litigation.
“Many will remember that this is a long running process that has taken place over many years (when) the Black Sash and the brought an application the Constitutional Court, in which Freedom Under Law intervened seeking supervision of the court in respect of the unlawfully awarded contract to cash pay master services for the distribution of social grants,” says CEO of Freedom Under Law Nicole Fritz.
Dlamini is expected to appear in the Johannesburg Regional Court on 21 September.
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