By Nomava Nobumba
01 March 2010
Judge Meyer Joffe has ruled that most of the evidence of former intelligence official, Barry Gilder, in former police commissioner Jackie Selebi’s corruption trial has to be made public.
Gilder took the stand in the South Gauteng High Court this morning in closed doors, with the court warning that the recording will be made public if his evidence does not compromise national security.
Although Judge Joffe ordered the transcript be made public, two pages of a document submitted as evidence will be kept confidential.
This was prompted by Selebi’s attorney Jaap Cilliers‘s comments that his client has been a victim of much media speculation that government has been attempting to protect the former Police Commissioner by keeping Gilder out of the witness box.
Cilliers insisted that for it was for this reason that nothing should be kept confidential and all the details of Gilder’s testimony should be released to the public.
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