Patriotic Alliance West Rand leader Bruce Nimmerhoudt was slapped with an additional charge of terrorism in the Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court when he was due to apply for bail on a charge of incitement of violence.
Nimmerhoudt told the court that he was part of his party’s Toekomsrus, Randfontein branch WhatsApp group. According to Nimmerhoudt, he and 94 other members of the group received the voice note through WhatsApp from Luna Dickson – a councillor-elect for the Rand West Municipality.
Denying that he wrote the voice note, Nimmerhoudt told the court that the charge of incitement of violence was to dent and damage his campaign to become a mayor in one of the municipalities on the West Rand. He said he received the voice note on July 15 and had intended to hand it over to Randfontein police station commissioner Brigadier Masolle Manamela the next day, but police arrived in the early hours and arrested him.
But the police, in opposing the application, maintained that they have a strong case against Nimmerhoudt. Investigating officer Captain Phakamile Gumede said they executed the arrest after obtaining information from their intelligence unit that the voice note was manufactured and distributed by Nimmerhoudt.
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