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In his replying affidavit filed in court yesterday Justice Key Dingake stated that, “The factual foundation upon which the respondents’ based their claim regarding the issue of the housing allowances contain factual inaccuracies and mistakes”.

Early this month, President Ian Khama suspended Dingake, and his colleagues, Justices Modiri Letsididi, Mercy Garekwe and Ranier Busang following their spat with Dibotelo over the CJ’s unprecedented act of sanctioning a police probe into their acceptance of  housing allowances despite living in pool houses. The President then set up a tribunal to inquire into their conduct. The four in turn filed an urgent application to interdict the sitting of the tribunal and also to reverse their suspensions. The case is scheduled for next week Monday, September 28 before Justice Tebogo Tau at the Lobatse High Court.