The trial of EFF secretary-general Marshall Dlamini, who is accused of assaulting a police officer at the 2019 State of the Nation Address, has resumed in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court. | itchybyte
The assault trial of EFF secretary-general Marshall Dlamini continues. In response to the incident, the EFF said at the time that they feared leader Julius Malema would be assassinated by right-wingers.
Testifying in Afrikaans, Robertson told the court that in the build-up to the events, she thought to herself:"Hier kom 'n ding" . This was based on the feeling she got from the EFF when they walked in a group after the SONA in the melee of people in the lobby of the National Assembly building.Robertson testified in Afrikaans and Dlamini's advocate, Laurance Hodes, complained that the English translations of what she said were inaccurate.
Just before the incident with Carstens, the court heard, EFF leader Julius Malema had apparently stood on her foot but she said she realised afterwards that it was by mistake. Robertson explained that she was one of the police officers who wore dark suits so that people could tell them apart from what she called"bouncers" - other security officials who wear white shirts and black trousers who are known as"white shirts".
"His glasses were hit off him and I saw them lying on the ground. And there was blood on the bridge of his nose," she testified.In the meantime, Malema's bodyguard, who she knows by sight but not by name, used his body to block Malema off from everyone else.She picked up Carstens' lens and immediately afterwards, the police were told to go with people she assumed were from Crime Intelligence, and they interviewed the police in different rooms.
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