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Moroadi Cholota at the High Court in Bloemfontein.
The former personal assistant of Ace Magashule, Moroadi Cholota, says that the asbestos trial is an opportunity for the truth to come out.
Cholota spoke to the media today after the Constitutional Court affirmed that her extradition from the US was unlawful.
Cholota was extradited from the US in 2024 to face corruption and money laundering charges linked to the Free State asbestos case.
She says that the state humiliated her during her extradition.
“I think the nation also watched as I was taken away from my university where I was studying and unlawfully brought to this country, chained and accompanied by countless men with guns. And this after I had to spent still time in jail. As you’ve all watched, I was brought into court, shackled, which is something that none of my former accused went through. I was paraded before TV cameras and humiliated before the nations. The state fought for me to be jailed pending this trial.”
(4/4) CCT 280/24 Director of Public Prosecutions, Johannesburg and Another v Jonathan Schultz and Othersand CCT 190/25 Director of Public Prosecutions, Bloemfontein v Nomalanga Moroadi Selina Cholota pic.twitter.com/PLe3AmK7Lt
— Constitutional Court (@ConCourtSA) January 23, 2026
