One of the charges against South Africa’s public prosecutor, Busisiwe Mkhwebane has been dropped.
The matter has been postponed to the 29th of September for Mkhwebane to make submissions.
Busisiwe faces charges of perjury stemming for her ABSA/Bankorp reports.
Busisiwe was facing three charges of perjury.
Mkhwebane is accused of having “unlawfully and intentionally” lied under oath in court documents in 2017 and 2018 about the number of times she met with former president Jacob Zuma during the investigation into the SA Reserve Bank, and the purpose of those meetings.
The Constitutional Court found in November 2018 that Mkhwebane had “put forward a number of falsehoods in the course of litigation” around the Reserve Bank report.
The meetings that Mkhwebane held with Zuma and state security officials over the Reserve Bank report were considered extraordinary given the need for the head of a Chapter 9 institution to conduct herself with independence and impartiality.
However, this charge has been withdrawn by the court of law.
The perjury charges were laid against Mkhwebane by the head of NGO Accountability Now, advocate Paul Hoffman, in August 2019.
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