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Pinky Khoabane
@pinkykhoabane
Writer, journalist, communications consultant. Activist working to end human trafficking, sexual exploitation, GBV, food insecurity info@defendingdignity.org.za
Feb 9 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
🧵1/..Why Adv Batohi is in serious trouble and it’s not politics, it’s law
1️⃣ Last week, Adv Ngcukaitobi cross-examined Adv Moipone Noko, former KZN DPP. What emerged wasn’t just incompetence - it was a constitutional problem.
#NkabindeInquiry 🔥🔥🔥 Image 2/..
2️⃣ Noko testified there was prima facie evidence of coordinated, unlawful conduct by Cato Manor police officers.
Not rogue cops.
A system
Racketeering charges warranted:
•coordination from management
•execution by officer
•a clear modus operandi
Textbook racketeering
Apr 21, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"I watched white lawyers sitting with Michael Hulley who represented Zuma for 10yrs of my life there, not a black advocate, white...they were never associated with his cause. No one ever said Kemp is a Zuma man after 15 yrs of being his lawyer...Not ever was he called a Zuma man" "Inherent in this accusation [that Im a Zuma man] for a man I have only represented for 2yrs when he doesnt have power is because Im Black. Because we're Black we incapable of being professional in what we are doing, we are not professional, we are not clever".
Oct 12, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
A young man JV Esterhuyse compiled a book based on questions about what young people thought of Ntate Mandela.
He put together a manuscript & presented a proposal to @NMCF_SA/ Foundation. Achmat Dangor accepted the proposal & NMFC endorsed the book.
JV was then to source donors The Nelson Mandela Children's Fund/Foundation then gave him an advance to seek donors.
JV went to London, got BBC interested & other donors. BBC wanted the book to have a foreword by uTata.
This never came through despite manuscript having been given to Zelda to forward to Tata
Nov 25, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Nico Coetzee, a snr operational specialist with 22 yrs in SARS HR unit had misgivings about Ivan Pillay's early retirement on full pension & instant re-employment “to provide for his children’s education". He sent an email to newly appointed Oupa Magashula expressing his views Coetzee pointed out that in a similar request for early retirement the previous year, Pillay had said “he wished to pursue other interests”. “It is not unusual that a retired employee is reappointed after retirement in a contract capacity....