Character assassination to silence corruption-busting lawyers…

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Four months ago, two top lawyers - who had cracked open the Corruption Mafia at Fort Hare University - were arrested by 20 heavily-armed military style police and jetted off to the Eastern Cape. One of them, Sarah Burger, was left in a jail cell for six days without access to an attorney. In this interview with BizNews, she says: “…there's character assassination in order to gag witnesses, which I believe is what has happened to us. There are people being shot at and assassinated and murdered because people are trying to cover up truths that are out there. Now the retaliation that we've experienced - and which we believe is very politically motivated - is that we've uncovered something and we formed a view based on thousands and thousands of documents. And that view and the evidence that supports it is now turned as a smoking gun towards us because we are effectively the wrongdoers now and we need to be silenced.” Burger and Bradley Conradie - who still have not even been questioned by police and have not been told what the allegations against them are - have instructed their attorney to notify the State that they will be suing them for “huge” constitutional violations. Despite their treatment, they are continuing to support law enforcement in their investigations into the corruption at Fort Hare in the hope that at least some of those cases will be prosecuted in the future.
5 Aug 2024 6AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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