Laying down the law
Judge rules against Rosemary Hunter in FSB case
Judge dismisses former deputy pension funds registrar Rosemary Hunter’s request for independent investigation into her former employer’s controversial funds cancellations project
After a year-long fight, acting judge Hendrik Jacobs has dismissed former deputy pension funds registrar Rosemary Hunter’s request for an independent investigation into her former employer’s controversial funds cancellations project. In judgment handed down on Wednesday in the high court in Pretoria, Jacobs dismissed Hunter’s application to amend her initial application — which sought access to two crucial reports into the cancellations project of the Financial Services Board (FSB) — to replace it with an application for a fresh, court-supervised independent investigation. He also threw out the new application. Hunter was ordered to bear the legal costs of the five respondents she took to court, incurred from August 2016, the day after her term expired. The respondents included the FSB, FSB chairman Abel Sithole, CEO Dube Tshidi, former deputy pension funds registrar Jurgen Boyd and the minister of finance. Hunter said she felt obliged to take the matter further due to the number of...
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