LIMPOPO – The Limpopo High Court’s Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) last Friday dismissed Doris Mthembi’s appeal and ordered her to report back to the Thohoyandou Correctional Services within 72 hours to continue her six-year perjury sentence.
Mthembi was sentenced by the Makhado Regional Court in 2013 to ten years in jail, of which four years were suspended for perjury after she lied about being kidnapped and raped at gunpoint by her former husband businessman, Goddard Mugwena.
Her lawyer, Ralph Ndleve petitioned the Judge President of the Northern Gauteng High Court to grant her leave to appeal, which was granted.
Thereafter Mthembi paid R3 500 bail pending the appeal in 2014.
On Friday, the DPP dismissed the appeal after discovering that her defence counsel had failed to file the necessary documents with the Registrar of the High Court.
On the same Friday, a fraud case against her was postponed to January 2017 by the President of the Limpopo Regional Court, Jackie Wessels.
She will appear in the Tzaneen Magistrate’s Court on 26 November with regard to another fraud case.
From 28 November to 1 December, Mthembi will appear in the Giyani Regional Court with her alleged accomplices in a case of conspiracy to murder Mugwena.
Mugwena, as a current LLB students, says he hopes to see justice being served.
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