The man at the centre of the CweCwe rape controversy now has EFF leader Julius Malema in the bullseye.
Frederick Jacobus Pieterse, principal of Bergview College, filed a case of intimidation and crimen injuria against Malema at the Sophiatown police station yesterday, station commander Brigadier Bonginkosi Ndebele confirmed.
“Yes, a case was opened against Mr Malema,” Ndebele told Sunday World.
“It will be transferred to province for investigation. In fact, I believe it already has.”
According to the complainant, the case stems from an event, Land Reclamation Day, in Sophiatown, at which Malema “made false accusations of defamation in public and on social media which impaired the dignity of the complainant. As a result, his life was threatened, and the livelihood of his family was put under threat as well.”
The mother told the secretary
In October, last year, news of the alleged rape of a 7-year-old girl, given the pseudonym CweCwe, broke at the college. Her mother reported to the school secretary that her daughter had been raped.
She also opened a case at the Matatiele police station, north of the Eastern Cape.
A month later, the NPA declined to prosecute because “the docket did not disclose offence”.
In his complaint, Pieterse alleges that on 6 April, Malema made the “false accusations and defamatory utterances”.
As a result, he alleged his life was threatened, and the livelihood of his family was put under threat as well.
According to Pieterse, Malema said the following: “Even that principal who is being handled differently compared to other suspects, the principal that raped CweCwe must know that we are coming for him. We are going to arrest him, and we are going to arrest all those who are raping our children.
Complainant takes offence
“How do you rape a seven-year-old child if you are normal in your head? How did you even qualify to be a principal, for that matter? Because it means it is not for the first time he’s doing (sic) what he did to this little girl.
“Fighters, we call upon all those victims of that principal to come out. If they were scared, they must now come out so that he can be exposed. Everybody must know he’s not good to work with children, Malema is alleged to have said.
Provincial police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Mavela Masondo said: “Police can confirm that a case of crimen injuria and intimidation was opened at Sophiatown Police Station and the same complainant opened another case of Contravention of Cyber Crime Act and crimen injuria at Boksburg North Police Station.
“Both cases will be escalated to the Gauteng Provincial Head Office for investigation. Police cannot give out the names of the suspects because they haven’t been arrested and appeared in court.”
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