A Blue Bulls rugby player will appear in a Pretoria court on Monday for allegedly beating a metro policeman to death.
Jacobus Stephanus “Bees” Roux spent the weekend in jail after he was arrested on Friday in connection with the incident.
Police spokesperson Colonel Eugene Opperman said earlier Tshwane metro police officers stopped a vehicle in Hatfield, Pretoria, during the early hours of Friday morning in connection with a drunk-driving incident.
Opperman said there had been an “altercation of some kind” and the driver of the vehicle allegedly severely assaulted a metro policeman, who later died.
The officer, Ntshimane Johannes Mogale (38), who died on the corner of Schoeman and Richard streets, was married with children and had been with the metro police for four years.
On Friday, Roux’s attorney Ernst Serfontein told the South African Press Association: “I believe there was an incident where a policeman died, passed away, and I know [he] was involved in the incident. How he was involved I don’t know yet, I can’t tell you.”
The Sunday Times reported that Serfontein was no longer representing Roux.
His agent, James Adams, would not reveal who the new attorney was.
Roux has been charged with murder and was expected to appear in the Hatfield Community Court on Monday. – Sapa