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- The criminal case of Norma Mngoma, wife of former Minister Malusi Gigaba, has been postponed to more than three months.
- Mngoma was arrested in August after she allegedly damaged a Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon.
- He has a civil case pending in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, in which he claims that his arrest by the Hawks was illegal and unconstitutional.
Norma Mngoma, wife of former Minister Malusi Gigaba, appeared briefly in Pretoria Magistrates Court on Friday on charges of assault and intentional damage to property.
The matter was postponed until February 12, 2021 for further investigation and the outcome of the motion proceedings at the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria.
The state said it had already made a full disclosure to Mngoma’s legal team, which included witnesses.
Mngoma was arrested in August after she allegedly damaged a Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon.
She spent one night in police cells and was released on bail of 5,000 rand the following day.
Norma Mngoma arrives at Hatfield Magistrates Court on August 3. She was accused of willful damage to property and criminal injury.
He then approached the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, claiming that his arrest by the Hawks was illegal and unconstitutional.
The Hawks have disputed this, saying she was arrested after a magistrate issued an arrest warrant.
News24 previously reported that in a statement to the Hawks, Gigaba claimed that his wife called in “counterintelligence people” to come to the couple’s home in the days leading up to their arrest, an experience that he said left him feeling “threatened, totally (sic) and unsafe in my own home.”
Last month, News24 also reported that her lawyers had argued in Superior Court that her arrest was nothing more than a “favor to her husband.”
His attorneys want the Supreme Court to rule that the Hawks’ involvement in a “domestic dispute” was illegal and “must cease.”
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