In simple statement, the fraud alleged by Bailey is that as the result of the conspiracy described in his complaint, his position was transmuted from a shareholder in a going concern with assets worth $1,870,000 to a shareholder in a non-operating company with assets worth $440,000. This was done, it is alleged, pursuant to a plan designed to conceal these transactions from Bailey, whom the parties to the alleged conspiracy knew was interested in the transaction, admittedly in his capacity as a prospective purchaser, but also in his capacity as a shareholder who (accepting the allegations of the complaint at face value) was otherwise unprotected by a board of directors who had compromised their status as fiduciaries. These allegations make out a sufficient case of fraud and deceptionSuspected rapist and murderer called magistrate to testify in his defense, she obliged

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Johannesburg - For a few minutes magistrate Maggie van der Merwe traded her seat on the bench and legal robes and sat in the witness stand at the Joburg South High Court. Van der Merwe, a magistrate at the Lenasia Magistrate’s Court, was called to testify by murder and rape accused Thabo Happy Mosia in his defence. The alleged cash-in-transit kingpin asked that Van der Merwe give testimony that he was assaulted by the police while in custody. Van der Merwe told the court she remembered Mosia from when he appeared in her courtroom in March 2017. Mosia, who is accused of the kidnapping, rape and murder