Ayanda Dlodlo will not intervene to help Mkuseli Apleni
Home Affairs Minister Ayanda Dlodlo allegedly told the suspended director-general that she would prefer to await judgment before making a decision on his suspension
Suspended Home Affairs director-general Mkuseli Apleni will get no reprieve from newly appointed Minister Ayanda Dlodlo.Despite speculation that Dlodlo might review Apleni’s suspension‚ it has emerged that she met Apleni last week to inform him that she did not wish to intervene in the matter.Dlodlo was accompanied to the meeting by her chief of staff last Wednesday‚ a day after she was appointed to her new portfolio after a Cabinet reshuffle.Dlodlo informed Apleni that the matter was near completion anyway, and that she would prefer to await judgment before making a decision.This has emerged in a letter written by Apleni’s lawyers‚ Hogan Lovells. Apleni’s court bid to overturn his suspension was heard in the High Court in Pretoria on October 17."During adjournment of the hearing yesterday [October 17]‚ the applicant’s counsel made an undertaking to the court that the honourable judge will be informed of the developments which may impact on the preparation of the judgment‚" the lett...
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