Conveyancer Zietta van Rensburg. (Zietta van Rensburg/Instagram)
The Legal Practice Council (LPC) wants fraud-accused lawyer Zietta Janse van Rensburg to be sentenced to six months behind bars for contempt after she appeared before the same judge who suspended her from practicing law.
Van Rensburg claimed she had the constitutional right to appear before Mpumalanga High Court in Mbombela Judge Brian Mashile because the case she acted in “revolves around an elephant, which is specifically protected game in terms of the Animal Welfare Act”.
She stressed the litigation – which concerned the fate of Tswale the rescue elephant – was in the public interest and was adamant she was not guilty of contempt.
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