Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane says a preliminary investigation into Ismail Abramjee’s text message claiming to have it "on good authority" that the Constitutional Court would dismiss her rescission case, revealed 18 calls between him and Justice Jody Kollapen.
"These calls were exchanged between 4 January 2022 and 22 April 2022, two days before Adv. [Andrew] Breitenbach SC received the controversial SMS. The shortest call lasted three seconds while the longest took 436 seconds or just over seven minutes," Mkhwebane said.
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Speaking to News24 after Mkhwebane’s announcement on Tuesday afternoon, Abramjee denied that there was anything untoward about these calls, adding that they were primarily concerned with a celebratory event that he had hosted for Kollapen on 4 March this year.
He confirmed that Gauteng Judge President Dunstan Mlambo had called him on that day to ask for directions to the event.
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