The Citizen reports that the Judicial Conduct Tribunal looking into allegations of sexual harassment against Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge on Wednesday heard more explosive revelations.

Advocate Muzi Sikhakhane cross-examined Mbenenge’s accuser, judge’s secretary Andiswa Mengo, after the tribunal heard evidence last week that Mbenenge allegedly sexually harassed her between 2021 and 2022. Through a series of suggestive sexual messages via WhatsApp, Mengo testified about inappropriate comments made by Mbenenge and an incident in his chambers where he asked her to perform oral sex. Mengo said she reciprocated Mbenenge’s sexual messages “to satisfy him for peace at work.” During her testimony last week, Mengo conceded that she wanted to create the impression that only Mbenenge made salacious comments and that she did not reciprocate. Sikhakhane on Wednesday spent a lot of time poking holes into Mengo’s testimony and the formal complaint that she had laid. He accused her of being a “liar”. While Mengo detailed how Mbenenge had sent her explicit messages, including pictures of his private parts, during her cross-examination on Wednesday, she admitted to omitting sexually explicit messages that she had sent to him. Sikhakhane also argued that experts did not find the alleged images of private parts on the phones belonging to Mbenenge and Mengo. The advocate claimed that Mengo wanted to shame the judge president.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Faizel Patel at The Citizen
• Read too, Judge’s clerk admits sending sexual messages to judge president, at Pretoria News
• And also, Judge Mbenenge denies sending a picture of his private parts to his secretary, at GroundUp

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