Mpumalanga High Court in Mbombela Judge Brian Mashile has urged fraud accused "body positivity" lawyer Zietta Janse van Rensburg to face a Legal Practice Council (LPC) misconduct inquiry "because the more you delay it, you just destroy yourself".
On Wednesday, Mashile and Acting Judge Lungile Bhengu refused Van Rensburg's application for leave to appeal her court-ordered suspension, which the LPC applied for, based on multimillion-rand fraud accusations against her and her firm.
The LPC also obtained an order that enforced that suspension, which Van Rensburg was seeking to challenge with a reconsideration application.