Minister of Public Enterprises Brigitte Mabandla of South Africa

Mabandla has no place to hide and should not walk in the shadow of a gentleman like Pikoli.

The battle between Pikoli and Mabandla had been simmering for some time and they were no longer on speaking terms.

Mabandla had no knowledge of the plan.

Pikolis lawyer, Advocate Wim Trengove, put it to Justice Department director general Menzi Simelane that Mabandla had improperly interfered with, hindered and obstructed Pikoli in the execution of his duties.

PRETORIA - A Pretoria High Court Judge ruled on Monday that Justice Minister Brigitte Mabandla had failed to exercise her constitutional duties diligently over the applications of 384 prisoners for presidential pardons.

At the height of Steve Biko's Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) in 1975, Brigitte Sylvia Mabandla was among 44 people arrested in Durban during a swoop on activists celebrating the victory of the people of Mozambique.

Mabandla was born on November 23 1948, the year the Nationalist Party officially introduced state-funded racism.

Early in her professional career, Mabandla was moved by the need to disturb apartheid's comfort zones.

By Sandile Ngidi::: At the height of Steve Biko's Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) in 1975, Brigitte Sylvia Mabandla was among 44 people arrested in Durban during a swoop on activists celebrating the victory of the people of Mozambique.

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JOHANNESBURG Justice Minister Brigitte Mabandla is unsure of whether she had travelled with former Speaker Frene Ginwala, just days prior to the suspension of National Director of Public Prosecutions Vusi Pikoli.

Responding to a written parliamentary question from Freedom Front Plus MP Willie Spies, Mabandla said she did not recall whether she and Ginwala had shared a South African Airways flight on September 20.

Mabandla said that the Government also was looking into ensuring their access to land long-denied.

Mabandla said that, within the South African discourse for social justice, dismantling the systemic apartheid legacy was paramount, and it was that thinking that formed the substance of the Constitution in particular the preamble and the Bill of Rights.

Mabandla was born on the 23rd of November 1948.

The IFP’s Justice spokesman Koos van der Merwe said yesterday that Mabandla has demonstrated, through the ban, that she is racist and that she has no regard for the judiciary.

fines and a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.

The time had come to stop seeing magistrates as separate from the judiciary, Minister for Justice and Constitutional Development, Brigitte Mabandla said today.

Justice Minister Brigitte Mabandla came under heavy attack on Thursday in parliament where she reiterated government's plans to improve the judicial system and announced special courts would sit to hear the cases of more than 1300 suspects arrested for violence over the past two weeks.

Mabandla said in her speech that the special courts would ensure all cases relating to the recent unrest were expedited.

Len Joubert of the DA said Mabandla was expected to provide strong political and moral leadership.

But, among other things, Mabandla had let the Scorpions down, Joubert said.

Mabandla had let the Scorpions down'The way in which she "abetted in protecting" police commissioner Jackie Selebi from prosecution was inexcusable.

Minister Brigitte Mabandla said on Friday.