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File Image: Asbestos roof.
The Free State High Court will hear on Monday the case of an accused in the R255 million asbestos corruption case.
This, after the Constitutional Court ruled that South African courts had no jurisdiction to prosecute Moroadi Cholota for alleged involvement in the case.
The Constitutional Court had also found that the extradition of Cholota from the United States of America was unlawful.
The former personal assistant of Ace Magashule, Cholota, says that the asbestos trial is an opportunity for the truth to come out.
Cholota spoke to the media last week 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.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek_XjdD59XY
