EFF leader Julius Malema has expressed intense anger at magistrate Twanet Olivier for being an hour late in the East London regional court on Wednesday, day 3 of the case in which he’s accused of discharging a firearm in public.
“She has never been early to any court. She says come at 12, we come at 12, she’s never here. We must not talk because we are scared to go to jail? It can’t be. We are being disrespected. We have rights and our rights have to be respected,” he told journalists”
Proceedings were meant to begin at 11am, but when Malema spoke to journalists it was 11.55am.
“Five years we’ve been here, she has never been on time. No journalist has written about that, about her ill discipline or coming late to court.
“I’m not that type to keep quiet when nonsense happens. Nonsense is nonsense, I don’t care who does it, a judge or a magistrate, its rubbish. We have been too quiet for five years of disrespect,” Julius Malema fumed.
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Magistrate Twanet Olivier vowing to be on time for Court Proceedings after CIC @Julius_S_Malema strongly condemned her lateness to every appearance for the past 5-Years in the East Landon Magistrate’s Court.
Justice Must Never Be Delayed, No One Is Above The Law!… pic.twitter.com/CNrinxk1iJ
— Economic Freedom Fighters (@EFFSouthAfrica) September 13, 2023
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CIC @Julius_S_Malema in the East London Magistrates Court addressing the fact that the presiding Magistrate has been late to every appearance for the past 5-Years
The dysfunctional state of our courts due to load-shedding is made worse by ill-disciplined… pic.twitter.com/bxla3lYZ6K
— Economic Freedom Fighters (@EFFSouthAfrica) September 13, 2023
