The Cape Town Magistrate's Court has granted former ANC MP and minister of state security Bongani Bongo bail with conditions.
Bongani Bongo, ANC MP and former state security minister. Picture: Gallo Images / Daily Sun / Lindile Mbontsi
The state did not oppose bail but argued that it should be set with conditions because “we don’t know what’s going to happen in the future”. “The court should set bail with conditions, including handing over his passport, contacting the investigating officers if he wants to travel and providing the state with the reasons for travel and itinerary. He was wrongly acquitted.”However, his defence lawyer argued bail conditions were unnecessary as this was a second run of the same case. Bongo’s legal representative argued that the state knew he would not violate any bail conditions, just as he did not previously.
Impeached judge Hlophe had earlier dismissed Bongo’s case due to a lack of evidence after he had filed a discharge application. In his 2021 ruling, Hlophe acquitted Bongo, who had pleaded not guilty to two counts of corruption, in terms of Section 174 of the Criminal Procedure Act.Hlophe found Vanara’s evidence against the MP did not implicate him in the crime of corruption, as defined by the Prevention and Combatting of Corrupt Activities Act .In a unanimous ruling, the SCA found that Hlophe had “erred” in his assessment of the evidence presented by the state during the trial.
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