Cholota’s urgent application challenging charges dismissed with costs

The Free State High Court on Monday dismissed an urgent application by the former personal assistant of former Free State premier Ace Magashule, Moroadi Cholota, to have fraud and corruption charges against her withdrawn.Cholota wanted the court to declare that the charges against her were unconstitutional and invalid and that the state’s conduct in her extradition from the US rendered it unlawful.The charges Cholota is facing relate to a R255m asbestos contract awarded about six years ago by the Free State department of human settlements to the Blackhead Consulting joint venture to…