When lawyers contradict each other

Many people who had hoped to get free lessons from the state counsels, who usually urge their witnesses to give corroborating evidence in court, were left with unanswered questions as to what to expect from the prosecutors when they deal with their cases.

In the case, state counsel Mpho Letsoalo, from the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) was sued by lawyer Tshekiso Tshekiso for saying that he "suffers from verbal diarrhoea and he is myopic".   Tshekiso sued Letsoalo for P350,000, saying he was insulted, and as a result was humiliated and degraded by the words, which were uttered in open court on December 2007. Letsoalo called another prosecutor, Waniwa Ngebani, as his witness. The duo contradicted each other in almost all the areas of their evidence.