* Judgment in the case of a registered tax practitioner, Heidi Williams, and her co-accused husband Daoud Cisse – who are both facing 1 656 fraud charges – has been delayed after the couple failed to appear at the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court. Magistrate Herman Pieters was ready to start reading out his 181-page judgment, but after waiting for more than an hour for the couple, a warrant of arrest was issued for them. The two are accused of defrauding SARS of R2.4m through inflating medical claims for clients. A total of 198 state witnesses testified in the marathon trial that commenced in 2015. Both pleaded not guilty to the charges, but the state contended that the couple intended to submit false information on behalf of the taxpayers.