Bakang Seretse and co-accused appeal DCEC's prosecutorial authority

Bakang Seretse and his co-accused are appealing a Magistrate's Court decision that upheld the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime's DCEC power to charge and prosecute them. The appeal challenges whether the DCEC has the constitutional authority to prosecute criminal cases and if the prosecution was lawfully initiated. Seretse, Sharifa Noor, Alphonse Molamu Ndzinge, Kgori Capital Pty Ltd, and Kgori Holdings Pty Ltd face a 63-count indictment, including charges of stealing by an agent, forgery, conspiracy to defraud, and money laundering. The appellants argue that the DCEC is an investigative body, not a prosecutorial one, and that the Constitution vests prosecutorial authority solely in the Director of Public Prosecutions DPP and their subordinates.