POLICE DRAG FEET OVER CHARGES AGAINST MEC'S WIFE
Police are dragging their feet in pursuing a case against Palesa Maile, wife of Gauteng Sports, Arts and Culture MEC Lebogang Maile, who is also Gauteng chairperson of the ANC Youth League. The charges include reckless and negligent driving, theft, assault and attempted abduction.
Maile's car allegedly hit a 15 year old girl on Friday 18 March this year while she was walking home from school along Gibson Drive in Buccleuch.
Maile got out of the car and allegedly assaulted the girl and her twin sister, blaming them for breaking the side mirror of her vehicle. She then allegedly took a school bag and a cellphone which belonged to the twins, these items were later retrieved from Maile's car at Buccleuch Police Station.
Constable Mangena from Buccleuch police station then allegedly tried to persuade the parents not to lay charges against Maile.
The young girl who was hit suffered injuries to her shoulder and was seen by a doctor. Both girls and their parents have borne enormous emotional trauma due to this incident which is now compounded due to the lack of progress on the case.