By Khanyisa Tabata
18 January 2010
According to reports one of President Jacob Zuma's bodyguards, who is charged with attempted murder relating to an alleged "blue light" incident in Durban, has been cleared of a contempt of court charge.
The magistrate Muzingaye Dladla had not "wilfully" failed to attend court in November last year, on the day his trial should have begun.
She accepted a written statement from specialist psychiatrist Ashwin Valjee that he had seen Dladla on that day and had found him in "a great deal of physical and emotional pain".
Dladla, a member of the Pretoria-based presidential protection unit, is facing a charge of attempting to murder retired police detective Dirk Matthee by shooting at his vehicle on the southern freeway on June 5 2008.
18 January 2010
According to reports one of President Jacob Zuma's bodyguards, who is charged with attempted murder relating to an alleged "blue light" incident in Durban, has been cleared of a contempt of court charge.
The magistrate Muzingaye Dladla had not "wilfully" failed to attend court in November last year, on the day his trial should have begun.
She accepted a written statement from specialist psychiatrist Ashwin Valjee that he had seen Dladla on that day and had found him in "a great deal of physical and emotional pain".
Dladla, a member of the Pretoria-based presidential protection unit, is facing a charge of attempting to murder retired police detective Dirk Matthee by shooting at his vehicle on the southern freeway on June 5 2008.
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