OPERATION Dudula’s Nhlanhla “Lux” Dlamini has been granted bail of R1500.
This unfolded this morning at the Roodepoort Magistrate Court.
“Lux” as he’s known to his fans was arrested last week and spend a weekend behind bars for inciting violence and damage to property of alleged drug peddler and former EFF’s Victor Ramerafe in Dobsonville.
The group never found drugs and the raid has since been condemned by the EFF which helped its member open the case last week.
“No- one can stop me if I’m with the community…this is the time that we live and die for our people,” he addressed large crowds.
Magistrate Ruby Matthys instructed Dlamini not to make contact with Ramerafe, to surrender his passport to the police and report to the investigating officer should he intend to leave Gauteng.
Dlamini’s lawyer Dumisani Mabunda called for minimum restrictions on Dlamini as he said the state’s case against him was weak.
Mabunda said the police had to be instructed to ensure that fingerprints at Ramerafe’s house were taken and processed as part of the investigation before the case resumed in May.
Matthys, however, rejected this and said the police had the sole prerogative in how the investigation would be approached.
“We will leave it up to them to decide how to do the investigation,” she said.
‘Lux’ also took swipe at EFF and said were behind his arrest.
“We are not going to be carrying caskets and say Malema must die. We are better people than that. They were taking a platform, saying Nhlanhla Lux must die next time he enters people’s yards. I am not going to open a case. You don’t need to kill people when they are dying,” he said.
“Even the very people who got us to this point, I don’t want to call them by name because I see they are trending through and have no plan, but even then they must benefit from our leadership. Even those who hate and despise us must benefit from our leadership.”
While the group has been condemned by the government and various political parties as a vigilante group that was taking the law into its own hands by conducting raids, Dlamini said community members knew where drugs were being sold.
He also took a jab at the police who stood a stone’s throw away from the crowd, accusing some of them of being hooked on drugs.
“As they are standing there, even though I am not being personal because I can’t see who is who, some of them are on drugs as we speak. Some of them are suffering from drugs. Next time think twice when they say arrest us because Lux is fighting for you and your children that are on drugs,” he said.
Dlamini would appear before the same court on May 27, pending further investigations, which included the securing of further witnesses.
Meanwhile, the movement will roll out their planned march to Pretoria on Tuesday.
The plan is to visit top companies that hire foreigners such as BMW, SAB and others.
Image (Out on bail Dudula Operation’s Nhlanhla “Lux” Dlamini).
