Bernadette Wicks Last year EFF leader Julius Malema and MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi pleaded not guilty to assaulting a police officer at Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s burial. EFF leader Julius Malema and EFF MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi in the Randburg Magistrate s Court are charged with assaulting a police officer at the funeral of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in 2018. Picture: Twitter / @EFFSouthAfrica
This is as the pair’s criminal trial resumed in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday morning.
The charges against Malema and Ndlozi date back to April 2018 when they are accused of pushing Lieutenant-Colonel Johannes Venter – a member of the Presidential Protection Services – after he refused their vehicle entry to the Fourways Memorial Park where Madikizela-Mandela was being buried.
The focus at the assault trial of EFF leader Julius Malema and former national spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi was on video footage when they appeared in the Randburg Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.
Former EFF spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi in the dock at the Randburg Magistrates’ Court on 9 March 2021, accused of assaulting Lieutenant-Colonel Johannes Jacobus Venter at the funeral of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at the Fourways Memorial Park on 14 April 2018. (Photo: Gallo Images / Sharon Seretlo)
Malema and Ndlozi are accused of assaulting Lieutenant-Colonel Johannes Jacobus Venter at the funeral of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at the Fourways Memorial Park on 14 April 2018. They are accused of shoving Venter after he blocked them from accessing the cemetery.