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She struggled to get the equipment back and when she finally did, by threatening her husband to approach the ANC leadership and eventually take legal action, “what was most shocking and concerning to me was that certain information had been erased.”
“The full nature and extent to which my devices were tampered with and the information removed is still unclear. All attempts by my lawyers to obtain such information have been met with delaying tactics, ”he says.
However, the emails during the year 2015, the emails related to international travel from 2015 to 2018 and the “text messages for the period 2014 and 2015 and some of my photos taken during local and international travel” had been deleted or erased, she said.
“It would appear that there was a conscious and systematic pattern to these erasures that my legal representatives and I are still in the process of determining,” he says. Mngoma.
Her affidavit points to other factors that, according to her, make her arrest illegal and “dire.” Malicious injury to property and the crime of injury were not priority crimes, he said, and should not have involved the Hawks. And, the Hawks who participated in their arrest, Sergeant Norton Ndabambi and Maj. Gen. KM Mavuso, were from the Hawks’ Mpumalanga office rather than the Pretoria or Johannesburg offices where the alleged crimes occurred: “the specific officers who arrested me were acting outside their area of geographic and legal jurisdiction, “he says Mngoma.
She says she was denied the right to legal representation twice: when her devices were being taken from her, about 10 days before her arrest, and she asked to speak to a lawyer, “they told me that the right to speak to a lawyer does not apply. to investigations carried out by the Hawks, but only to investigations carried out by the regular police ”.
When she was taken to the Brooklyn Police Station on a Friday night, “Mr. Ndambambi spoke blatantly to my face and said, ‘She will spend the entire weekend in cells. Even your lawyer won’t be able to help you because we’re going to go off with the files and turn off our phones. ‘
“The plan orchestrated with my husband was that he should be in custody all weekend,” she says. Mngoma. In fact, at the Brooklyn police station, where she was detained, there were incidents recorded in the event book, but there were no statements or files attached, she says.
