Cape Town - When police officer Errol Wildschudt saw four men entering through the doors of Cape Town International Airport – each carrying containers of human waste – he turned to his colleague and said: “Here comes trouble.”
Wildschudt was a warrant officer on duty the day the floor of the departures terminal of the airport was splashed with human waste.
On Wednesday he was testifying in the Bellville Regional Court in the matter involving nine people who were arrested for dumping the waste at the entrance of the terminal on June 25 last year.
In the dock, Ses’Khona People’s Rights Movement leaders Andile Lili and Loyiso Nkohla sat next to Yanga Njingwana, Ben Dyani, Bantubakwe Mgobodiya, Wandisile Mkapa, Jaji Diniso, Bongile Zanazo and Thembela Mbanjwa. They face charges of contravening the Civil Aviation Act.
Outside the court hundreds of protesters sang and danced. Inside, Wildschudt implicated four of the nine men who
emptied the containers at the airport.
Wildschudt, who identified Nkohla, Mbanjwa, Lili and Zanazo, followed Nkohla to a car where he found four more containers containing waste in the boot and assisted other officers to apprehend the men. He said he heard that more men had been arrested at a later stage.
The trial is set to continue on Thursday.
- Cape Argus
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