Taxpayers will have to fork out R300,000 after the high court held the minister of police responsible for the wrongful arrest of a Cape Town politician.
Nceba Sandlana, 48, was attending his brother's murder trial in the high court in Cape Town in August 2014 when a police officer arrested him and charged him with intimidation. This after the sister of the deceased, whose murder Sandlana’s brother was being tried for, complained he had threatened her and that she feared for her safety.
The woman told the police she had heard from a friend that a video of her sitting in court was being circulated on WhatsApp and that Sandlana had shot the video.Sandlana and the woman lived in Gugulethu and were “aligned to different political parties and had a history of disagreement”. When asked to provide the threatening video, the woman said “her friends were reluctant to get involved as they were scared of [Sandlana]”.
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