• The court adjourned the case involving the director-general in KwaZulu-Natal Premier's Office Nonhlanhla Mkhize and others to April next year.
• Director-General Nonhlanhla Mkhize faces charges of defeating the ends of justice and intimidation.
• The State said the long adjournment was vital so digital forensic imaging and making applications for mutual legal assistance from international entities.

The case involving the intimidation of a whistleblower by KwaZulu-Natal Premier's Office director-general Nonhlanhla Mkhize and others was adjourned until April 2023.

The matter was back in the Durban Special Commercial Crime Court on Tuesday after Mkhize and her three co-accused, Siphiwe Mabaso, Sthembelo Ralph Mhlanga and Mthokozisi Pius Duze were previously granted bail.

The four are accused of being involved in intimidating the chairperson of Mhlathuze Water Board after an individual impersonating a National Intelligence Agency allegedly approached the board chair at her home, saying he was with the NIA, but sent from the office of the premier in KZN.

State prosecutor Reenai Ramouthar told Magistrate Dawn Soomaroo, who was presiding over the case for the first time, that investigators and the State required a lengthy adjournment for further investigations.

Ramouthar proposed a seven-month adjournment, but objections from defence attorneys put the matter back in the Special Commercial Crime Court on 6 April 2023 when the State would update the court on its investigation.

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