Thandi Modise in urgent bid to halt animal abuse case by AfriForum
National Assembly speaker Thandi Modise. Picture: TSHEKO KABASIA
Modise — who had a suspended warrant of arrest issued against her after failing to appear in court last week — has now launched an urgent application in the Pretoria high court to have her trial either struck from the roll or postponed indefinitely. “This current dilemma is completely of her [Modise’s] own doing,” Roets said, after pointing out that Modise’s lawyer had asked that the case against her be postponed until Tuesday, a day after President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that a shutdown would be implemented.
Modise faces charges linked to the discovery of the carcasses of more than 50 pigs and other animals on her farm in Modderfontein, in the North West province, in 2014. At the time, media reports claimed the starving pigs had eaten each other. “All parties, inclusive of regional court magistrate ... agreed to reconvene on March 31 2020 in the interest of availing your client an opportunity to provide reasons why her non-appearance should not be viewed as contempt of court as well as arranging a trial date. We respectfully submit that your letter is opportunistic as the regulations clearly refer to matters where the accused are not contemptuous of the criminal proceedings they find themselves in.
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