Brigitte Sylvia Mabandla

Justice Minister Brigitte Mabandla was also reshuffled...

’ Judge Nicholson declared that Mbeki had attempted to influence three successive heads of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) – Bulelani Ngcuka Vusi Pikoli and Mokotedi Mpshe – to commit ‘a very serious criminal offence’ by pursuing a political prosecution (a crime punishable by up to ten years in prison) and implicated Justice Ministers Penuell Maduna and Brigitte Mabandla in their acts with the full knowledge of Mbeki...

Brigitte Mabandla Justice Minister is the only politician on the JSC committee that deals with complaints against judges...

The Justice Minister Brigitte Mabandla another Mbeki-ally is replaced by the pro-Zuma party boss from Limpopo Province Collins Chabane as head of the NEC's Constitutional Subcommittee charged by the party conference with transforming the judiciary and weakening the Directorate of Special Operations (aka the Scorpions)...

IRRETRIEVABLE BREAKDOWN Mbeki's terse announcement of the suspension referred to 'an irretrievable breakdown in the working relationship' between Pikoli and the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Brigitte Mabandla...