National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise failed to appear in the Potchefstroom Regional Court on Tuesday to face charges of animal abuse, AfriForum has claimed.
Parliamentary speaker Thandi Modise is being taken to court by the NSPCA, backed by AfriForum. She was not in court on Tuesday, claiming she was dealing with the coronavirus crisis, and AfriForum says an arrest warrant has been issued.National Assembly speaker Thandi Modise failed to appear in the Potchefstroom Regional Court on Tuesday to face charges of animal abuse, AfriForum has claimed.
The dates of March 24-26 were provisionally set for the trial when Modise appeared in court in October last year. Efforts to reach Modise on her cellphone were not successful and a text message sent to her lawyer went unanswered. AfriForum took up the private prosecution of Modise in 2017 after the National Prosecuting Authority decided not to prosecute Modise on animal cruelty charges.
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