D-Day for Lionjanga

Lionjanga is appealing against conviction and a three-year jail term, which has been wholly suspended for two years.

He was convicted of corruption for participating in a number of PPADB meetings that assessed a tender bid by Eastgate Enterprises in which his sister, Alice Makgekgenene and nephew, Kagiso Makgekgenene are directors. Minister Ndelu Seretse sat alongside Lionjanga in the meetings between January 22 and February 27, while he was a director of PPADB and the Village Magistrate was told that Seretse was a family friend of the two Eastgate Enterprises directors thus forcing Advocate Sydney Pilane to quip that the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC) and the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) could have been engaged in selective and discriminatory investigations and prosecution against or that they simply did not have a case against his client.