FUL welcomes ‘time consuming’ settlement with Bathabile Dlamini
Freedom Under Law (FUL) says former social development minister Bathabile Dlaimin has paid over half a million rand out of her own pocket to settle a costs order handed down in the Constitutional Court in 2018.
The organisation has confirmed that Dlamini, who is also the president of the ANC Women’s League, had settled the court order cost of R650 000.
Dlamini was ordered by the Constitutional Court to pay the cost for her role in the social grant crisis in 2018.
"We welcome the fact that former minister Bathabile Dlamini has now paid the fees and she paid the personal cost order and has discharged that as ordered by the Constitutional Court and we think that this is an important development," says FUL executive director Nicol Fritz.
"The fulfilment and discharge of the order, it is important underlining of the significance of these types of orders and holding those who occupy high positions to account."
Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) is the law firm that represented Black Sash Trust in the battle with Dlamini.
Fritz added that the process to obtain the settlement was long and draining.
"Her conduct and actions have taken such a long time where the parties involved including CALS, Black Sash, and Freedom Under Law have been moving dockets in the system in following up and ensuring that these court orders were paid.
"Having been to involve the sheriff and it has been a time-consuming process but now it has been paid."
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