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.
Varying versions of Malema, Ndlozi footage ‘assaulting’ officer under scrutiny The two politicians have appeared in court pleading not guilty earlier to assaulting Colonel Johannes Venter at the funeral of struggle stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at the Fourways Memorial Park. The EFF s Julius Malema and Mbuyiseni Ndlozi in the Randburg Magistrates Court on 9 March 2021. They are accused of assaulting Colonel Johannes Venter at the funeral of struggle stalwart Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at the Fourways Memorial Park in 2018. Picture: @EFFSouthAfrica/Twitter
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JOHANNESBURG - The different versions and lengths of CCTV footage that captured the alleged assault of a police officer by Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema and party member of Parliament Mbuyiseni Ndlozi have been at the centre of testimony in the Randburg Magistrate Court.
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Malema and Ndlozi allegedly assaulted Johannes Venter, a SAPS colonel, in April 2018 during an incident that was recorded on CCTV.
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Julius Malema, leader of the EFF, and Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, EFF MP, appeared in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court yesterday for allegedly assaulting Johannes Venter, a SAPS colonel.
AfriForum announced in July 2019 that the organisation had approached the court with a mandamus application to force the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to decide whether to prosecute Malema in this and two other pending cases against him.
Malema and Ndlozi allegedly assaulted Venter in April 2018 during an incident that was recorded on CCTV.
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.