Cape Town — Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) MP and secretary-general and head of security, Marshall Dlamini, has been convicted of assault after slapping a police officer in 2019.
The Cape Town Regional Court found Dlamini guilty of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, and malicious damage to property, after he hit the police officer during the State of the Nation Address in 2019, The Citizen reported.
Cape Town Regional Court judge, Nasha Banwari, rejected Dlamini’s claim that he was trying to protect EFF leader, Julius Malema, from a possible assassination attempt.
Dlamini claimed that the EFF received a tip-off that Malema would be assassinated but Magistrate Banwari found Dlamini guilty of assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, as reported by IOL.
The Economic Freedom Fighter’s head of security and secretary-general, Marshall Dlamini, is awaiting to hear his fate after he was found guilty of assault and other charges relating to an incident in Parliament a few years ago.
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Dlamini unleashed a jaw-dropping slap on warrant officer Johan Carstens in the face which broke his eyeglasses. He suffered facial injuries from the incident and opened a case against the EFF MP.
News24 reported that Carstens sustained a 3cm wound on the bridge of his nose and redness on one cheek. A doctor who testified in the assault trial, Dr Lynne Swarts, previously said that Carstens had blood on the bridge of his nose, cheek and collar when she treated him.
After the incident, the EFF said in a statement that the party had been on heightened alert at the SONA after getting information of a right-wing plot to assassinate Malema.
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