Former Western Cape judge president John Hlophe. (Trevor Samson/Gallo Images)
Disgraced former Western Cape judge president John Hlophe's insistence that the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) had no basis to seek the corruption retrial of ANC MP Bongani Bongo, after he granted him a discharge, was just one of his many "misdirections", the State argues.
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