Constitutional Court orders John Block to go to jail
The top court dismissed his application for leave to appeal against his conviction and sentence for corruption and money laundering
Former ANC Northern Cape leader and premier John Block will finally face time in jail, after the Constitutional Court dismissed his application for leave to appeal against his conviction and sentence for corruption and money laundering. Block is the first prominent ANC politician who will go to jail, after being convicted and sentenced to 15 years in jail by the high court in Kimberley in 2016. In August, the Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed the appeals by Block and businessperson Christo Scholtz, while the apex court has taken the same route. In an order dated November 19, the court said it concluded that the pair’s separate applications “should be dismissed as it bears no prospects of success”. The charges arose from lease agreements from May 2006 to August 2008 between various state entities and departments in the Northern Cape and members of what became known as the Trifecta group of companies Scholtz‚ a businessperson from Pretoria who was engaged in the private equity busines...
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