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The Presidency and the Ministry and the Department of Justice are scrambling to resuscitate the Special Tribunal , which effectively collapsed following the resignation of its head, Judge Lebogang Modiba. Besides Modiba quitting, another Tribunal judge has retired, and four others have been inactive for most of this year. Yet action is only now being taken to appoint a new head of the Tribunal, as well as new judges.

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This comes three-and-a-half months after Modiba handed in her resignation at the end of March — which was effective from the end of June. The Tribunal is central to the work of the SIU and was established to ensure the unit could swiftly apply for preservation orders without having to navigate busy court rolls to get matters before the High Court.

GroundUp has reliably learned that the SIU has several high-profile matters, including cases involving lottery corruption, ready to take to the Tribunal. But it has held back because of the lack of capacity to hear them. The SIU was guarded in responding to a query about how the serious issues facing the Tribunal would affect the unit.

A founding member of the Tribunal, Modiba has also been its driving force since being appointed its president in , handling case management and juggling judges to hear matters. Modiba has personally heard 78 out of of all matters brought before the Tribunal during its five years of existence. There are meant to be eight judges, but in reality, she was basically working alone, with poor support from the Department of Justice and limited resources.