Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba has failed in his attempt to appeal against a high court judgment, which found he had lied under oath in his legal battle with the Oppenheimer family. The Supreme Court of Appeal on Wednesday dismissed Gigaba’s application for leave to appeal against the judgment, saying there was no reasonable prospect of success. Judge Malcolm Wallis said in his judgment that “there is nothing to suggest that the issues raised by the minister are of such a nature as to warrant the grant of leave to appeal notwithstanding the lack of prospects of success”. The application was dismissed with costs. This was the fourth blow Gigaba suffered in the courts in relation to this matter. The high court judgment, which was delivered in Pretoria in December 8 2017, found that the minister’s arguments in the matter were “disingenuous, spurious and fundamentally flawed, laboured and meritless, bad in law, astonishing, palpably untrue, untenable and not sustained by objective ...
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