Staff Reporter
The Free State High Court on Wednesday dismissed a special plea by Moroadi Cholota in the long-running asbestos corruption case, ruling that the court has jurisdiction to try her.
Judge Phillip Loubser rejected Cholota’s remaining grounds of special plea and found they had no merit.
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This after the Constitutional Court in January sent the matter back to the high court to decide outstanding issues in her challenge.
Cholota, a former personal assistant to ex-Free State premier and ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule – who is himself an accused in the case — is among 18 others facing fraud and corruption charges related to the R255 million contract to remove asbestos roofs in Free State townships.
Her special plea argued, among other things, that the state had misrepresented information to a US magistrates’ court during extradition proceedings,
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