The EFF leader was responding to criticism from some who had asked why he chose white lawyers to represent him at his assault trial.
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has warned his lawyers in his assault case that if they did not win his case, they should be worried about their careers.
Earlier on Thursday, the lawyer for Malema told the Randburg Magistrates Court that colonel Johannes Venter did not bother to look for the permit on the EFF leader’s car before he stopped them at Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s funeral.
The EFF leader and the party’s PM Mbuyiseni Ndlozi were in court on Thursday for day two of their assault trial.
EFF supporters gathered at the Randburg Magistrates Court on 29 October 2020 for a second day in support of their leader Julius Malema and EFF MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi. Ndlozi and Malema are facing a charge of assault after allegedly assaulting a police officer at the funeral of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in 2018.
The red beret's legal team has resumed its cross-examination of the police officer who's accused them of assault.
EFF leader Julius Malema and his co-accused Mbuyiseni Ndlozi are expected to take the stand in a Joburg Magistrates Court.
Malema and fellow EFF MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi have been charged with common assault for allegedly pushing a police officer who claims he was trying to prevent them from entering the cemetery where Madikizela-Mandela was laid to rest.
The trial of EFF leader Julius Malema and EFF member of Parliament Dr Mbuyiseni Ndlozi began at the Randburg Magistrates Court on 28 October 2020. They are accused of assaulting a police officer in 2018.
The EFF leader was speaking outside the Randburg Magistrates Court on Wednesday after he and his colleague, Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, attended their trial hearing.
Colonel Johannes Venter told the court that he was briefed only to allow the president and heads of state into the cemetery.
Colonel Johan Venter is the first witness to take the stand in Malema and Mbuyiseni Ndlozi's assault trial.
Malema and Ndlozi are accused of assaulting a police officer at Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's funeral in 2018.
The DA has branded the EFF as 'instigators of violence and destruction', adding that the utterances were incredibly hateful.
The EFF leader and party MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi appeared in the Randburg Magistrates on a charge of assault on Tuesday.
The case against Malema and Ndlozi was due to begin today but was delayed due to an application by the media to record the proceedings.
Leader of the EFF Julius Malema and EFF MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi returned to the Randburg Magistrates Court on 13 October 2020. The two allegedly assaulted a police colonel at the funeral of struggle icon Winnie Madikizela Mandela.
EFF leader Julius Malema maintains that he and party MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi did nothing wrong and they have been dragged to court because they pushed a white man.
