Voice evidence will decide Mhlauli's fate, not paper work

The case against former Permanent Secretary, Elvidge Mhlauli, could fall or stand on the evidence that was led in court - viva voce - and not so much on the documentary evidence.

When he rose to address the court for the last time, giving his final submission, advocate Van Zyl, acting for Mhlauli, said he must have had this uppermost in his mind. He prepared 37 pages of heads of argument in which he set out to punch holes in the evidence that was led against Mhlauli.

Kadimo Oremeng, the prosecution's star witness got a big chunk of Van Zyl's body blows.
Oremeng was brought to court as an accomplice witness and the advocate urged the court to proceed with caution when considering his evidence.

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