CHIEF Justice Raymond Zondo has weighed in on the arrest of Advocate Malesela Teffo inside the courtroom, saying it was “unacceptable”.
Advocate Teffo was handcuffed inside the Pretoria High Court on Thursday when police executed an outstanding warrant of arrest.
Advocate Teffo spent the night in the cells and appeared at the Hillbrow Magistrate’s Court the next day, where he was granted bail of R10 000.
However, there was an outcry as to why the advocate – who is representing four of the five men accused of the murder of football star Senzo Meyiwa, was not given a chance to leave the courtroom before he was handcuffed.
On Tuesday, Chief Justice Zondo said he has seen footage of the arrest and “wishes to make it clear that the arrest of anybody, let alone a legal practitioner, inside a courtroom, is completely unacceptable and should not have happened”.
Zondo added: “In this
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