Omotoso Trial Reloaded: Resilient Cheryl Zondi to testify in re-trial By Bheki C. Simelane colibheki
Judge Mandela Makaula’s decision to recuse himself as presiding officer of the rape trial against Nigerian Pastor Tim Omotoso means that the trial will have to start from the beginning again.
Omotoso’s lawyer, Peter Daubermann, applied for the judge’s recusal claiming that the judge was biased towards Zondi. She admitted that it was tough on the witness stand the last time and said that this time she expects it to be much worse. “It was extremely difficult and agonising for me,” she said.and the harrowing experience throughout her testimony, Zondi said: “This is not justice but if I have to go through secondary victimisation, then so be it.”
She said she was punished for breaking her silence and that she was still enduring such punishment as she now has to deal with what it means to endure victimisation twice.
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