NATIONAL NEWS - The CEO of the South African National Parks (SANParks), Fundisile Mketeni, was on Monday found not guilty of sexual assault and assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm by the Bushbuckridge Magistrates Court.
The judgment was confirmed by Mketeni’s legal team to The Citizen.
Mketeni was first accused of the charges in May, and made his first court appearance in the same month along with three other individuals accused of similar charges.
He had been on special leave following the assault and sexual assault complaints. He was appointed CEO of SANParks in 2014.
The charges were laid against Mketeni by a 35-year-old woman employed at Shalati Lodge in Skukuza in the Kruger National Park.
In June, he expressed “disappointment” at the allegations, with his legal team accusing the woman who laid the charges of blackmailing high-profile individuals “in exchange for financial rewards”.
City Press reported in May that the woman who accused Mketeni of sexual assault feared for her life and was afraid to return to work.
