Johannesburg - The legal troubles of stand-up comedian Tol Ass Mo, real name Mongezi Ngcobondwane, are not over yet.
He appeared briefly in the Newlands Regional Court on Friday with his fashion designer wife Mome on charges of crimen injuria intimidation and assault, after an incident in Melville, Joburg, in July.
According to reports, Ngcobondwane claimed that a white man who laid the charges against him had called him a k*****.
He allegedly retaliated by assaulting the man.
On the day of the incident, Ngcobondwane told the Daily Sun that he had been withdrawing money at an ATM when the complainant allegedly lost his temper, after he could not move past Ngcobondwane’s car, which was parked in front of the ATM.
The man then allegedly started swearing at his wife.
Ngcobondwane said he went to the car to see if his wife was fine, and as he drove off the man allegedly called him a “k*****”.
He then stopped the car and “manhandled” the man.
He was arrested about two weeks after the incident and released on bail of R1 000.
According to the Daily Maverick, the man was not white. James Albert French, the complainant, is an African-American and denied that he swore at the comedian.
He told the Daily Maverick it was the celebrity couple that had actually been racist towards him.
He told the paper that Ngcobondwane had fired a weapon at him during the incident and was now trying to defame him in the media as a desperate attempt to defend his actions.
On August 28, the case was postponed for further investigation.
On Friday, State prosecutor Vincent Mochabela said the case would again be postponed for the Director of Public Prosecutions to decide whether it should go to trial.
The TV personality, who also stars with his wife on the popular reality show Mo Love, told the Daily Sun he wanted to lay a complaint with the Human Rights Commission against the man.
The case was postponed to Thursday.
The Star