Johannesburg - The estranged husband of 5FM DJ Fikile “Fix” Moeti has laid criminal charges against her at the Randburg police station in a desperate bid to get access to their 1-year-old son.
Orrock Robertson said failure to locate the whereabouts of his son had forced him to resort to the one-on-one briefings his PR firm arranged with the media in Sandton on Friday.
He said an interim protection order that Moeti filed against him was illegal and baseless as he did not have a history of intimidation and violence against his wife.
But in the protection order, he is cited for “violent behaviour, putting his son and wife in immediate danger, anger management problems, drug addiction, post-traumatic stress disorder, harassment at a place of work, controlling and emotionally abusive and alienating Fix from her family members”.
Later, when he was served with a notice to appear in court, Moeti alleged that Robertson had physically abused their son. He has, therefore, laid charges of perjury against her, based on these allegations.
Robertson said police handed the first interim protection order to him at his home on December 1 last year, while the notice to appear in court came in March this year. Both orders were dismissed.
However, it appears the matter between the couple has not been resolved as he has yet to see his son.
“I was woken up at about 12.45pm by her and two armed policemen in my room. They were not just a little bit armed, they were R-5 armed (sic). They told me they’re here to serve me with an interim protection order.
“At first, I assumed they had been told I’m the most dangerous man known to mankind so they were quite on tippy-toe.
“While I was being guarded, outside on the balcony, Fikile and a group of family members came in and packed up her belongings and all of my son’s belongings and then left.”
He said the order was unusual because the person who put it in place usually stayed at home with the child so as not to disrupt the child’s life.
“The order has not in any way restricted my access to my son but it restricts access to her.
“I can’t call, message or e-mail. I can’t get involved with her in any way. By default, that means I no longer have access to my son.
“This is where the clever, legal trickery comes in. It’s a designed attack, whichever way you look at it.
“It is a legally designed approach to stop contact between a parent and child.”
Moeti and Robertson have been married for two years and lived together for eight years prior to that.
Several attempts to get a response from Moeti were unsuccessful.
She did not respond to e-mails or text messages on her phone.
Robertson said he was reaching out to the media as a last resort because there was no order of the court of law in South Africa to prevent him exercising his full parental rights.
“In March, I went to the family court for papers to be served on her to appear in court. Because I didn’t know her residential address, I had to go to Brixton police station.
“Two police officers went to Auckland Park to serve her with the order.
“We arrived at the SABC and contacted the head of security because we didn’t want to embarrass her at work.
“We asked the head of security to go to the studio and ask her to come out and organise an office so this could be handled discreetly.”
He said Moeti ran out of the studio to the station manager’s office and refused to sign for the order.
“Two days later I get a letter from her lawyer stating that I arrived at the SABC with people who were purporting to be policemen and served her fake court orders at her place of work.
“The final line of the letter said that if I continued to engage in such harassing behaviour they would take legal steps against me, not limited to another protection order.
Lo and behold, two days later at 6am I’m woken up by police who delivered the attempted second interim protection order.”