{"id":746,"date":"2025-10-29T13:23:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northwestunlocked.co.za\/?p=746"},"modified":"2025-10-29T15:30:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:30:47","slug":"betty-diale-theft-case-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwestunlocked.co.za\/index.php\/2025\/10\/29\/betty-diale-theft-case-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"BETTY DIALE THEFT CASE POSTPONED!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/northwestunlocked.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG-20251029-WA0006-678x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/northwestunlocked.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG-20251029-WA0006-678x1024.jpg 678w, https:\/\/northwestunlocked.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG-20251029-WA0006-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/northwestunlocked.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG-20251029-WA0006-768x1159.jpg 768w, https:\/\/northwestunlocked.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG-20251029-WA0006.jpg 848w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>The Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in Rustenburg has postponed the theft case against EFF member of parliament and former North West provincial legislature member\u00a0Betty Diale.Pic Rapula Mancai <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>THE Specialised Commercial Crimes Court postponed the case against Betty Diale (52), to 23 January 2026 for further trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\u00a0Diale is facing six charges of theft, amounting to approximately R700 000, allegedly stolen from the Road Accident Fund (RAF) claimants.\u00a0Police reports reveal that the Legal Practice Fidelity Fund received several complaints from the RAF claimants, whose payments were deposited into Diale&#8217;s trust account. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The claimants alleged that the said money did not reach them after the payout, and subsequently reported to the police for investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>Diale was practicing as an attorney during the alleged commission of the crimes between 2009 and 2011 and was subsequently charged with six counts of theft in June 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Legal Practice Council has struck her off the roll, preventing her from practising as an attorney.<div id=\"m#msg-a:r-4184596898748488067-content\" class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"overflow-wrap: break-word; width: 335.644px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; white-space-collapse: collapse; padding: 7px 0px 0px; user-select: auto;\"><div class=\"clear\"><div dir=\"auto\"><div dir=\"auto\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Specialised Commercial Crimes Court postponed the case against Betty Diale (52), to 23 January<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-banner"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","chromenews-featured":"","chromenews-large":"","chromenews-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Masego Senosi","author_link":"https:\/\/northwestunlocked.co.za\/index.php\/author\/msenosi\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/northwestunlocked.co.za\/index.php\/category\/top-banner\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestunlocked.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestunlocked.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestunlocked.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestunlocked.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestunlocked.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/northwestunlocked.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":751,"href":"https:\/\/northwestunlocked.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northwestunlocked.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestunlocked.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northwestunlocked.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}