Ex-prison chief: Sex charges
2003-02-11 23:30
Port Elizabeth - In a judicial twist of the Jali Commision hearing in Port Elizabeth on Tuesday, a former prison chief appeared in the magistrate's court on charges of indecently assaulting his former female personnel chief.
Tamsanqua Khoza, presently correctional services provincial security chief, has been charged with two additional counts of indecent assault and one of crimen injuria involving two former female colleagues.
Former personnel chief Debbie Louw, and the two women testified in front of the Jali Commission how Khoza had reportedly harassed them sexually. During Tuesday's trial Louw testified that he had pressed himself on her in his office in 1999, locked the door and started kissing her furiously.
In her testimony she also said how he had manoeuvred it so that she had to squeeze past him in the confined space of the prison tea-room.
Louw claims Khoza at one stage insisted that she accompany him to Graaff-Reinet, telling her husband that she was on leave.
The case is expected to continue on Wednesday.