Zola Kenneth Sikiti has pleaded not guilty to charges of indecent assault and sexual assault involving two women who worked in the Regional Court in Cape Town.
The trial has lifted the veil on a series of alleged sexual advances and groping by the suspended area court manager dating to 2007.
During that year, Sikiti, 46, allegedly touched a court manager on several occasions, stroked her back, put her hands in his lap and kissed her neck.
The following year, he allegedly "sexually violated" a married court employee, called her "three to four times a day" and told her he loved her.
Sikiti has been suspended on full pay since November 2008. A disciplinary hearing conducted by the Justice Department in 2010 found him guilty of sexual harassment and fired him.
Sikiti, who said he was having an affair with the court manager, appealed against the ruling.
The department was last year ordered to pay the court manager R54300 in compensation after she brought an unfair labour practice case showing that Sikiti had stripped her of her powers as a manager.
Public Servants' Association union spokesman Koos Kruger said: "While the [dismissal] matter is still on appeal, he is on full pay. This is not fair to the complainant, and it's not fair to taxpayers."
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