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An attorney has questioned what prompted the State to charge his client in connection with allegations that he submitted a fake matric certificate to the Eastern Cape government when he was hired in 2002, even though the client had already been cleared in disciplinary proceedings.
The attorney, Elias Makhanya, was representing Eastern Cape health department spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo in the Zwelitsha Magistrate's Court on Tuesday when he told Magistrate Nompakamiso Mlonyeni: "We have not received copies of the docket. We really do not know what might have influenced the State to charge him regardless of the outcomes of the disciplinary committee of the department."
Kupelo's fraud, forgery and uttering case was transferred to the East London Commercial Crime Court during the brief appearance.
