Mhlauli appeals

Magistrate Moroka convicted Mhlauli on two counts of abuse of office and that he knowingly made a false statement in an affidavit. On the count of abuse of office Mhlauli was slapped with a maximum sentence of two years imprisonment. Mhlauli also received the maximum seven years sentence for the offence of making a false statement.
When he delivered the sentence, Magistrate Moroka advised Mhlauli that he had 14 days to appeal the sentence.

 
In his notice of grounds of appeal filed by his attorney, Kgalalelo Monthe of Monthe Marumo attorneys, Mhlauli appeals against both his conviction and the sentence.
He said the sentence meted out induces a sense of shock and that it ought to be reviewed and set aside.