Seretse files leave to appeal Dipate ruling

The application follows Regional Magistrate Mareledi Dipate’s decision last month to dismiss Seretse’s bid to quash 63 counts of stealing by an agent, money laundering, forgery of an official document, and conspiracy to defraud the government. Seretse is charged alongside former business partners Sharifa Noor, Alfonse Ndzinge, and their associated companies.

At the centre of Seretse’s interlocutory appeal is the legal authority of Thabo Malambane, Deputy Director of the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime (DCEC), to lead the prosecution. Seretse contends that Oteng Thamaku, Deputy Director in the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP), lacked the constitutional mandate to delegate prosecutorial powers to Malambane. He further argues the state failed to produce evidence such as formal letters or meeting minutes proving that DPP Director Kgosi Nkgakaagae had ever delegated such powers to Thamaku in the first instance.