By Karyn Maughan
Julius Malema does not think he needs to take the stand to explain his remarks that President Jacob Zuma's rape accuser enjoyed herself with him.
And the ANC Youth League President wants the hate speech complaint against him by the Sonke Gender Justice Network to be quashed - without him having to take the stand to defend himself.
Malema's attorney Tumi Mokwena this morning told the Johannesburg Equality Court that the evidence led against his client by Sonke advocacy head Mbuyiselo Botha and rape expert Lisa Vetten did not require Malema to answer it.
Malema sat cross-armed and silent as his attorney brought an application for "absolution from the
instance" in the complaint against him.
Sonke laid a hate speech, harassment and discrimination charge against Malema after he told a gathering of Cape Peninsula University of Technology students that when a woman didn't enjoy sex, she would leave early in the
morning.
- For the full story, see The Star newspaper.