SIMELANE: Well I am correct, because he himself would say that you are the accounting officer, so you deal with the issues.
TRENGOVE: Have you taken legal advice on the issue?
SIMELANE: It’s pretty straightforward, it doesn’t need legal advice in my view.
TRENGOVE: Won’t you answer the question. Have you taken legal advice on the question?
SIMELANE: No.
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TRENGOVE: You said you took no legal advice on this issue, correct?
SIMELANE: No, I don’t remember really getting counsel opinion on it. No in fact, yes I think you are quite right, we actually did, we got the opinion of Adv Maleka, yes now I recall and Adv Khoza, yes we did.
TRENGOVE: Mr Simelane, you said you took no advice. You repeated that same answer and then when you saw me turning up a document you changed your mind.
SIMELANE: No you are quite wrong. What I was trying to recall was what the opinion was and it actually covered quite a lot of issues, more than this one specific issue. So I am quite correcting myself that we did actually get an opinion on a whole range of issues about the role of the NDPP. If I recall that was our opinion yes.
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TRENGOVE: Yes. You were intimately involved in the preparation of the papers.
SIMELANE: Absolutely.
TRENGOVE: And in those papers one of the grounds, one of the accusations advanced against Mr Pikoli is precisely this difference of opinion between you and him, correct?
SIMELANE: Yes.
TRENGOVE: And yet you don’t tell the commission that you have taken legal advice on the question.
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