Duduzane inquest puts Dlamini to sleep
RANDBURG – The inquest into the death of Phumzile Dube continues in Randburg Magistrates' Court.
The Duduzane Zuma inquest continues 5 November at the Randburg Magistrates’ Court.
A Metro officer Jeffrey Phogole testified that when he arrived on scene two hours after the accident he saw a person hanging out of the minibus taxi, the person seemed to be dead. The person in question was Phumzile Dube who was found to be killed, ”Dube died from extensive blunt force trauma, with extensive injuries to the internal organs of the chest and abdomen and multiple fracture blood loss.” “He [Dlamini] only told me that he was hit [at] the back,” said Phogole.
Zumas’ Silver Porsche rear ended Jabulani Dlamini’s minibus taxi in the rain on the M1 South off-ramp to Grayston Drive, Sandton, in February.
Phogole gave contradictory evidence at the Randburg Magistrates’ Court stating at one stage that the two vehicles were facing South in the emergency lane and then later claimed that the minibus taxi was at an angle overlapping the emergency lane.
Magistrate Lalita Chetty temporaliy stopped the court proceedings to reprimand Dlamini for sleeping.
Zuma in his statement said that he had lost control of his Porsche, spun out and hit the back of the minibus taxi, due to the large puddle caused by the rain that day.
