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#BreakingNews: Dihlabeng lawyer, municipal officer arrested for obstructing justice - VIDEO

───   OLEBOGENG MOTSE 13:37 Wed, 13 Feb 2019

#BreakingNews: Dihlabeng lawyer, municipal officer arrested for obstructing justice - VIDEO | News Article

Two people – one believed to be a lawyer of the Dihlabeng Local Municipality that includes Bethlehem in the Free State - were arrested on Tuesday afternoon during an investigation into a multi-million rand housing project.


The arrest was confirmed by the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation or the Hawk’s national spokesperson, Hangwani Mulaudzi.

He said the duo was apprehended after allegedly preventing the Hawks from carrying out their investigation at the municipal offices. The directorate is investigating the controversial Dihlabeng housing project in Bethlehem. Media reports that the ANC secretary-general and former Free State Premier, Ace Magashule, meddled in the project made headlines. 


According to an exposé by Media24, Magashule allegedly ensured that a company partly owned by his daughter scored contracts worth R150 million. More recently the project, which has been running for more than ten years, has been shrouded in murmurs of tampering with house lists. Mulaudzi tells OFM News Hawks officials were taking statements from the potential witnesses when the legal officer and the lawyer – who alleges to be representing the municipality – obstructed the officials from doing their job.

He says they were arrested and released on a warning. They are expected to appear before the Local Magistrate’s Court on Friday, February 15. The Dihlabeng Local Municipality is yet to comment on the matter.


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