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Helen Zille’s appointee for Western Cape community safety minister left the police in 2003 after four women accused him of victimisation and sexual harassment, according to a newspaper report today.

According to the Mail & Guardian, Lennit Max, who was then provincial police commissioner, received a R5 million payout when he left the force.
Max was cleared of the charges due to a lack of evidence.
Max denies the allegations, insisting they were a tactic to get rid of him.
During an interview on Talk Radio 702 this morning, Zille said she had been unaware of the allegations against Max.
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http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=1000380

That's cape news isn't it?
 
Of course it's double standards.
Zuma is guilty until he proves himself innocent according to the masses.

Ridiculous!
 
Lycanthrope said:
Just a reminder - Zuma was cleared on a "technicality" not due to lack of evidence.
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True, but his case was thrown out of court twice previously due to lack of evidence.

If Lennit was a bigger fish I'm sure the prosecution could have spent more time and money (9 years anyone?) pursuing a case against him.
 
So being cleared due to a lack of evidence now means he is innocent?

Damn Zuma's lawyers better get onto that one then.
 
Sly21C said:
Lol! One of the comment reads "He is innocent until proven guilty.", double standards as opposed to Zuma me thinks. Anyway, I'm interested what the DA will do for the western cape and to see if poor people's lives will change for the better or not in the next 5 years.
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maybe they'll do NOTHING in khayelitsha... again.
 
Serqet said:
So being cleared due to a lack of evidence now means he is innocent?

Damn Zuma's lawyers better get onto that one then.
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Last time I checked, there was no shortage of evidence against Zuma, he's just been dodging actually being prosecuted on that evidence.
 
capetownguy said:
maybe they'll do NOTHING in khayelitsha... again.
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I'm sure they'll do something in Khayelitsha as soon as the lazy ass councillor for the area communicates with both the city and the people living in the township.
 
mOOey said:
Last time I checked, there was no shortage of evidence against Zuma, he's just been dodging actually being prosecuted on that evidence.
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um yes, but Serqet was talking about the DA's appointee for Western Cape community safety minister, Lennit Max, who was cleared of the charges due to a lack of evidence.

Reading this, one might think that a court of law threw out the charges due to lack of evidence (as they did twice with Zuma) but in fact, this is not the case.

In the 1999 accusations he was cleared of sexual harassment charges following an investigation by a legal task team on national police level. It never went to court. http://www.dispatch.co.za/1999/10/29/easterncape/QTOWNHAR.HTM

In the 2003 accusations (yes, there was more than 1) the charge was again dismissed by a departmental hearing.

Complaints of sexual harassment and victimisation against provincial commissioner Lennit Max by a deputy, Zelda Holtzman, have been dismissed by a departmental hearing and she may be transferred or discharged from the service.

Police management have asked her to give reasons why such action should not be taken.

An angry and "saddened" Holtzman said last night she had written to national Commissioner Jackie Selebi asking for an "independent and thorough" investigation of her charges.

"I am insisting on a thorough investigation which will find sexual harassment did take place. They rushed through this investigation and to describe it as phony would be mild."
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http://www.capetimes.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=54763
 
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