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The case of student activist and prominent #FeesMustFall leader Mcebo Dlamini has been postponed to January 18 by the Johannesburg Magistrates’ Court.
Dlamini is facing charges of theft‚ assault‚ public violence and malicious damage to property in connection with student protests.
He appeared briefly at the court on Wednesday before the case was postponed, after which the State proposed a plea bargain.
The state prosecutor reportedly required more time to provide the court with video evidence relating to the charges that Dlamini is facing.
Dlamini was arrested in October last year at a Wits University residence following mass demonstrations and violent clashes with the police on the campus in a call for free education.
He was later granted R2000 bail and released in November 2016.
After appearing in court in October this year, after his case was postponed to November 22, Dlamini said that matter was a “waste of public funds”.
“It is frustrating [and] sometimes I wonder why the state is eager to pursue this non-factor because clearly they don’t have a case.”
Dlamini has maintained that the case against him was politically motivated.
