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EFF secretary-general Marshall Dlamini addressing supporters after being sentenced for assaulting a police officer in Parliament while still the party’s head of security. (Jenni Evans/News24)
After being sentenced for assaulting a police officer in Parliament and maliciously damaging his glasses, EFF secretary-general Marshall Dlamini says he will do it again given the same set of circumstances.
“What I did that day, I can do it again,” he said to applause outside the Cape Town Regional Court on Friday.
Magistrate Nasha Banwari sentenced Dlamini to 18 months wholly suspended for five years for assault with grievous bodily harm for hitting Warrant Officer Johan Carstens in the face in the lobby of the National Assembly building after the State of the Nation Address in February 2019.
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