Former Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo, who worked on the Phala Phala report reportedly seeks police protection
According to Sunday World, Meshoe demanded a secret vote on the report on the farm burglary at President Cyril Ramaphosa’s property in a letter to National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula.
According to startling claims made by a prominent lawmaker, Reverend Kenneth Meshoe, former chief justice Sandile Ngcobo has requested police protection after receiving threats against his life after the publication of the Section 89 Independent Panel report into the Phala Phala farmgate.
Meshoe further asserted that “it is rumoured” that crucial witnesses in the Phala Phala case have vanished without offering any further details.
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Moshoe said he has been reliably informed that the former chief justice has requested police protection.
“We would like to submit that in the current charged political environment, where people fear for their lives and positions, the normal political process will be stifled if members of parliament must cast their votes in the open,” Meshoe said in a letter written on Friday.
“We know that, on all levels of government, political killings have become normative in South Africa. We have it on reliable authority that former chief justice Ngcobo has during this week applied for police protection.
“It is rumoured that key witnesses in the Phala Phala case have gone missing. We submit that you don’t only have the discretion to determine the method to be employed to decide a matter in parliament, but that, given the new threats, you have the discretion to remake and reverse your previous decision considering the new information brought to your attention.”
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