Portia Sizani, the wife of SA’s ambassador to Germany, Stone Sizani, has been found guilty of 15 counts of fraud and nine counts of money laundering at the Port Elizabeth Commercial Crimes Court, according to the Citizen.
“I’ve always been open, I’ll allow the law to take it’s course,” Sizani is reported to have said. reported that the case has been dragging since she was arrested in 2012 after being accused of defrauding the Eastern Cape education department by processing several fraudulent applications for Grade R teaching posts.
The initial trial was scheduled to start in August 2013, but was delayed by a year after Sizani submitted a doctor's note saying she was not fit to stand trial.The state then presented evidence, including the testimony of teachers and principals, over an 18 month period, before concluding its case in February 2016.
Sizani's legal team then lodged an application under section 174 for the case to be dismissed. This application was dismissed in July 2016, with Magistrate Mputumi Mpofu finding she did have a case to answer.
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