Dawie Kriel will know his fate in just over a month's time after pleading guilty to crimen injuria over an anti-Hindu Facebook rant.
Charges were laid by the ANC and the DA over Kriel's comments‚ which came amid Diwali celebrations in October last year. He attacked President Jacob Zuma for allowing “Gupta's and company” to import fireworks and ridiculed idol worship.
His post read: “Same story every year. Despite the outcry about crackers every year and in spite of the ban on the imports‚ Zuma still gives the Gupta’s and company license to import that s*** by the container load. Profit profit profit.
"To those idol worshippers and devil disciples who buy them in the name of religion‚ p***-off back to your dark hole in the backwoods of India you d***head!! I could strangle you morons with my bare hands and derive great pleasure in watching your face turn blue and your tongue pop out."
- Durban man due to plead guilty over racist Facebook rantDawie Kriel‚ the man whose alleged racist Facebook attack on Hindus landed him in deep trouble‚ is expected to plead to charges of crimen injuria in Durban on Tuesday.
He was charged and appeared in court in November for the first time. On Friday morning‚ in the Durban Magistrates Court‚ Kriel pleaded guilty.
National Prosecuting Authority spokeswoman Natasha Ramkisson-Kara said: :He pleaded guilty to one count of crimen injuria. It relates to his Facebook boast during Diwali last year. The matter was adjourned to March 3 for sentence. He will be out on warning.”
– TMG Digital/The Times
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