02 December 2020 1 Min Read
ConCourt denies Andile Lungisa's appeal application
in News by Adriene Carlisle
ANC councillor Andile Lungisa will not be eligible to be deployed into government for five years.
Image: Eugene Coetzee
Image: Eugene Coetzee
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The Constitutional Court has dismissed former ANC Nelson Mandela Bay councillor Andile Lungisa’s application for leave to appeal his three-year jail sentence.
A coram of nine judges, headed by chief justice Moegoeng Moegoeng found the matter did not engage the constitutional court’s jurisdiction but that, in any event, the appeal “bears no reasonable prospects of success”.
While the matter may now be academic as Lungisa was released on parole this week, it means that his sentence of three years imprisonment, of which one year was suspended, stands.
This has implications in terms of his ability to hold any significant political public office in the near future.