After pressure from AfriForum, EFF leader Julius Malema and the party's former spokesperson, Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, appeared in the Randburg magistrate's court on Tuesday for allegedly assaulting a police officer.
AfriForum announced in July 2019 that it would approach the court with a mandamus application to compel the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to come to a decision regarding the prosecution of Malema, the group said in a statement.
Malema and Ndlozi allegedly assaulted the SAPS colonel in April 2018 when he refused them entrance to the burial site of the late Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
Malema said the case against him and Ndlozi was “useless” and a waste of time.
At their last court appearance in November, Malema denied he and Ndlozi had assaulted the officer.
The case was postponed until June 24.
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