Andiswa Mengo asked for a moment to compose herself several times after the messages she received from the senior judge were read out before the tribunal.
JOHANNESBURG - Emotional scenes have played out in the judicial hearing probing sexual harassment allegations against Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge in Johannesburg.
Mengo asked for a moment to compose herself several times after the messages she received from the senior judge were read out before the tribunal.Evidence leader, advocate Salome Scheepers, probed Mengo on her recollection of the messages, to which she gave this response, with the help of an interpreter.The senior judge then sent his junior a message saying:"Yours please".
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