Mbenenge tribunal: Mengo grilled over not disclosing some WhatsApp texts
Mengo laid a sexual harassment complaint against the senior judge alleging that she endured months of unwanted sexual advances by the judge.
Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge at the Judicial Conduct Tribunal during the sexual harassment matter him. Picture: @OCJ_RSA/X
JOHANNESBURG - Counsel representing embattled judge Selby Mbenenge has continued probing high court secretary Andiswa Mengo on her complaint against the top judge.
Advocate Muzi Sikhakhane has asked Mengo about her decision not to disclose some of her responses to the Eastern Cape Judge President during their exchanges on social media platform, WhatsApp.
Mengo laid a sexual harassment complaint against the senior judge alleging that she endured months of unwanted sexual advances by the judge.
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Mengo, a junior staffer in the division led by Mbenenge, is being cross-examined before the judicial conduct tribunal that is tasked with investigating the claims she has made against the judge.
On Wednesday, the High Court junior has been pressed on every instance in which she neglected to mention her responses to Mbenenge when drafting her complaint against him.
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Sikhakhane has spent a considerable amount of time rereading the interactions between the pair and Mengo's responses to the top judge which are not contained in her complaint.
"You also did not indicate that answering the question go halfway now, then leave the rest for another day. You did not include in your statement that you put a laughing emoji and said, 'Will do'."
Sikhakhane has previously asserted that Mengo did not mention these instances in her complaint to portray herself as a vicitm of harassment.