The High Court Judge Christie Liebenberg has dismissed, and struck from the court roll, the former Education Minister Katrina Hanse-Himarwa’s application to appeal her conviction in the Supreme Court. In his ruling Judge Liebenberg says the applicant failed to show any prospects of success on appeal and was not convinced that the Supreme Court will come to a different conclusion. The High Court further ruled that the application for condonation does not meet the requisites of good cause, allowing her to proceed with the application for leave to appeal. Hanse-Himarwa approached the High Court to appeal her corruption conviction in the Supreme Court and not her sentencing. In papers presented before the High Court by South African lawyer, Barry Roux, the former minister says she was not satisfied with the High Court’s decision to find her guilty of corruption. Roux submitted that the Supreme Court should see whether the approach followed by the High Court was correct during the trial and at the time of conviction. The State, led by Deputy Prosecutor-General Ed Marondedze opposed the former minister’s application, on the grounds that there was no misdirection by the High Court during the judgement. The 52-year-old Hanse-Himarwa was in July 2019 found guilty of corruptly using her position, as the Governor of the Hardap Region, to make changes to the list of the Mass Housing beneficiaries in favour of her relatives in December 2014. She was fined N$50 000 and stepped down as minister after her conviction.