EFF leads protest ahead of coffin assault case
EFF members will protest outside the Middelburg Magistrate's Court, where two men are appearing for allegedly beating another man and forcing him into a coffin.
Party spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi says the alleged assault of Victor Mlotshwa took place at the JM de Beer Boerdery, next to the Komati power station in Mpumalanga.
"These racists then took a video and put it up on social media for amusement after humiliating Mlotshwa," Ndlozi said.
"This humiliation can be based on nothing else but his blackness, which means it is in actual fact a humiliation of black people as a whole."
In the 20-second video, which was posted on YouTube on November 7, one man, speaking in Afrikaans, forces Mlotshwa into a coffin and threatens to pour petrol on him.
Police spokesperson Brigadier Leonard Hlathi could not confirm if the matter was in court.