The commission appears to believe that it proved the conditions for a conviction on grounds other than those the tribunal found and that the tribunal should have taken other mitigating circumstances into consideration in its ruling and in setting the fine imposed on Telkom.
The original penalty proposed by the commission was in excess of R3bn. It still wants a fine of that magnitude imposed and says the tribunal erred in setting the penalty as low as it did.
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