The drunk driving case against high court judge Nkola Motata was postponed in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Friday.
Magistrate Desmond Nair postponed the matter to June 1 for the state to furnish heads of argument, in response to a discharge application brought by Motata’s advocate.
”A case like this would have taken three days, not three years … It’s murphy’s law,” Motata’s lawyer Bantubanke Tokoto said.
Earlier Tokoto accused witness Richard Baird of being racist.
”He was a dishonest witness… And made disturbing racist remarks,” Tokoto said.
”All he wanted was the arrest of the accused.”
Motata crashed his Jaguar into the perimeter wall of Baird’s house in Hurlingham, Johannesburg in 2007, allegedly while drunk.