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East London Regional Court has allowed the state to use the video footage of the alleged shooting incident during the EFF birthday celebrations in 2018 in the case against Malema and his bodyguard.

Magistrate Antoinette Olivier ruled that the video footage is admissible as real evidence. But Malema and his bodyguard Adriaan Snyman’s legal team opposed the showing of the video footage, saying the state needs to prove if the video is reliable and was not tampered with before it can be brought as evidence.

The state has also called Sibusiso Ngcobo who was hired as an audio-visual technician during the EFF’s birthday celebrations to the stand. Ngcobo is the 11th witness to be called by the state since the trial started in March last year. “Having regard for the relevant case law, especially the judgment delivered by the Eastern Cape division which the court has already placed on record and which this court is bound by, and keeping in mind that reasons will be dealt with at an appropriate time, the court rules as follows: the evidence is admissible as real evidence and that not trial-within-a-trial will be embarked on with regards to the question of admissibility and it is clearly not the correct procedure to follow and the court...

 

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The criminal is recruiting more criminals and then saying we are putting citizens first, my idea is that the citizens who come first will be the first ones to walk away after the EFF steals everything, it's true he does put citizens first, his no liar...

Why don't you guys show the case?

It's all Choreographed, Make him more popular so that the March takes place with numbers while he privately prosecutes Manatshe to benefit of IPPs & Green Energy while the country's coal is shipped to Europe. he's being made a President before elections. South Africa is a Movie.

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