Former social development minister, Bathabile Dlamini, has been slapped with a hefty R200 000 fine for lying under oath by the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court.
However, the court suspended half of the sanctions.
Magistrate Betty Khumalo meted out the sentence Friday to the ANC Women’s League president, whom she found guilty of lying under oath during a 2017 inquiry into the social grants debacle at the South African Social Security Agency.
The court gave the 59-year-old former minister an option of paying the fine or going to prison for two years.
