Teazers’ king Lolly Jackson was quietly convicted a fortnight ago for shooting a man with a paintball gun in a labour dispute, but he’s not such a bad guy – he donates to the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund and a charity for abused women and children.
Jackson pleaded guilty in the Randburg Regional Court on February 1 and was fined R20 000 after a plea bargain. His plea included the admission that he had instructed that two men be beaten up by “having uttered the words ‘moer him'”.
The state dropped a further charge that he had held a knife to the throat of the victim of the paintball gun shooting.
Jackson has complained in the past of his good deeds going unnoticed.
“Last week I donated R100 000 to charity and not a word in the media, but because I get caught speeding, I get crucified and ridiculed by radio talkshow hosts,” he was quoted as saying after being caught doing 249km/h in his Lamborghini in 2005. He claimed he was late for church.
Last month he was caught speeding again while en route to hospital to seek information about a critically injured motorcyclist he had helped, according to his version. He denied dicing with the motorcyclist, who later died. He was doing a good deed, he reportedly said, but “now I’m in the shit again”.
In the latest case the plea agreement lists among the “factors — considered appropriate in arriving at a just sentence” his “monthly” donations to, among others, the Mandela children’s fund, the SPCA, the World Primate Sanctuary and a place of safety for abused women and children in Krugersdorp.
Jackson pleaded guilty to a charge of grievous bodily harm for shooting Thandi Maya with a paintball gun “containing rubber bullets” and another of incitement by instructing someone to “moer” Maya, who was punched and kicked in January 2008 at Teazers in Rivonia, Johannesburg.
He also pleaded guilty to inciting two men, again by saying “moer him”, to beat up another man at the Rivonia Teazers in June 2007.
Apart from his R20000 fine, half of which is suspended for five years, Jackson agreed to pay R1 000 to each victim.