Western Cape High Court Judge Taswell Papier has ordered Prasa to make available audio recordings of a board meeting held on 1 December 2017. A GroundUp report says the case was brought by #UniteBehind, which claimed the recordings ‘will prove whether or not the board took the decision to disband the Legal Panel of Prasa’.

The order comes after #UniteBehind filed an affidavit in December 2017, which it said ‘showed that Prasa had taken a resolution to suspend the Legal Panel’.

#UniteBehind’s concern is that the dissolution of the Legal Panel paved the way for further tender corruption at Prasa. Its legal adviser, Mbekezeli Benjamin, said that Prasa had responded to its affidavit with two contradictory affidavits. The first denied that a decision had been taken to suspend the Legal Panel, and the second said that a decision had in fact been taken.

‘The recordings will actually show which version is true, and if one version is not true, that also has its own legal consequences.’ Papier has given Prasa until 18 May to file the audio recordings and documents from the board meeting. ‘If they fail to file that record within five court days, then we will bring a contempt order against them,’ said Benjamin.

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