Suspended magistrate ‘soft’ on child rapists paid R1.4m a year

01 December 2024 - 00:00 By TANIA BROUGHTON

More than four years after being suspended, the magistrate who doled out “outrageously lenient” sentences to child rapists continues to rake in her R1.4m annual package while the Magistrate’s Commission hearing allegations of misconduct and incompetence proceeds at a snail’s pace...

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