Ngaka assault case postponed to September

Sharon Mathala | Friday July 4, 2014 06:59

 

This is after the state failed to serve Ngaka with documents on time. Ngaka’s lawyer, Teto Sebola told the Molepolole Magistrate Faith Dlamini Ngandu that his client was served with the documents late, and pleaded for postponement so they could study the documents.

“My client was only served with the documents just this morning before court, I apply that may a later date be given,” he said.

Ngaka told the court that the case cannot continue because in the documents that were given to him by the state they excluded the police statement he wrote on the day of the alleged offence.

“Apart from the fact that the documents were served late, my client says that the statement he recorded to the police is missing from the files,” said Sebola.

Ngaka is charged with unlawfully assaulting his wife, who is a District Commissioner, on October 11 2013 at Matebele lands in Moshaweng. 

After this incident the couple is alleged to have had a series of confrontations. In February 2014 the couple treated onlookers to a street fight, after what Ngaka’s wife said was a case of domestic violence gone bad. Boingotlo then posted pictures of her knee surgery on social media crying out for help.

“Lying in a hospital bed putting my trust in the Lord o sekeng a pallwa ke sepe. Some day rewards from heaven for all of us shall be see:n by everybody.” Read the post on her Facebook page, which she later deleted.

Yesterday,  Ngaka, who has pleaded not guilty to the charge, sat side by side with his wife in court.