{"id":3702,"date":"2013-01-18T06:42:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T06:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3702"},"modified":"2013-01-18T07:35:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T07:35:08","slug":"breytenbach-hearing-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3702","title":{"rendered":"Breytenbach hearing continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3703\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3703\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/GlynnisBreytenbach.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3703\" title=\"GlynnisBreytenbach\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/GlynnisBreytenbach-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/GlynnisBreytenbach-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/GlynnisBreytenbach.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glynnis Breytenbach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The disciplinary hearing of suspended NPA prosecutor Glynnis Breytenbach continues in Pretoria on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A senior National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) official is expected to testify on Friday as the authority&#8217;s final witness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Breytenbach was suspended from the NPA on April 30, 2012, for allegedly failing to act impartially in an investigation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She was part of a probe relating to a dispute between Imperial Crown Trading (ICT) and Sishen\/Kumba Iron Ore over mining rights in the Northern Cape.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her suspension came after ICT&#8217;s lawyer Ronald Mendelow sent a letter of complaint about Breytenbach to then-National Director of Public Prosecutions Menzi Simelane on October 31, 2011. He claimed Breytenbach favoured Sishen in her probe and had an improper relationship with Sishen&#8217;s lawyer Mike Hellens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Breytenbach had argued that acting National Director of Public Prosecutions Nomgcobo Jiba suspended her in an attempt to stop her from prosecuting former police crime intelligence boss Richard Mdluli on fraud and other charges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Breytenbach has pleaded not guilty to the 16 charges the NPA brought against her. They include bringing the NPA into disrepute by speaking to the media without authorisation, and performing work outside the NPA. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The disciplinary hearing of suspended NPA prosecutor Glynnis Breytenbach continues in Pretoria on Friday. A senior National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) official is expected to testify on Friday as the authority&#8217;s final witness. Breytenbach was suspended from the NPA on April 30, 2012, for allegedly failing to act impartially in an investigation. She was part of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=3702\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Breytenbach hearing continues&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2413,2414,2415,2417,1002,2416],"class_list":["post-3702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-africa","tag-glynnis-breytenbach","tag-hearing","tag-imperial-crown-trading-ict","tag-menzi-simelane","tag-national-prosecuting-authority","tag-sishenkumba-iron-ore"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/GlynnisBreytenbach.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3702"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3706,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions\/3706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}