THE Domestic Violence Court in Pretoria yesterday heard a former Gauteng MEC ignored a protection order and attacked his estranged wife - the ANC deputy chief whip in the Gauteng provincial legislature - in their home.
Former housing MEC Dan Mofokeng pleaded not guilty to six charges, including assaulting his wife, Jacqui, threatening to kill her daughter and threatening to kick the family's 60-year-old domestic worker until she "urinated herself".
Mofokeng is out on R1000 bail and the couple is in the middle of a divorce.
Mofokeng allegedly sent his wife an SMS telling her he wanted to fetch his clothes from their home in Irene on the afternoon of February 24 last year.
Testifying yesterday in the court, Jacqui Mofokeng said she was on the phone to her lawyer about her husband's SMS when she heard him shouting at the domestic worker, calling her "a witch".
Jacqui Mofokeng said she then left the bedroom and went to find out what was happening in the kitchen.
She said Mofokeng then called her a b***h, slapped her in the face and tried to hit her again. She told the court he then hit her against the wall and "threw me to the floor and kicked me".
She said Mofokeng's companion intervened.
Mofokeng's lawyer, Lehlohonolo Adonisi, said Jacqui Mofokeng's account was a "fabrication", and said his client did not contravene the protection order as it did not state that he should get her permission before going to their house.
He also produced a medical report which allegedly contradicted her injury claims.
During testimony yesterday, Mofokeng said his wife's response to his SMS was that she was not at home and had changed the locks. He said the domestic worker gave him the bedroom key and "I unlocked the door but there was some resistance from inside".
He forced the door open and "I found her lying on the floor".
Mofokeng marital violence versions differ
THE Domestic Violence Court in Pretoria yesterday heard a former Gauteng MEC ignored a protection order and attacked his estranged wife - the ANC deputy chief whip in the Gauteng provincial legislature - in their home.
Former housing MEC Dan Mofokeng pleaded not guilty to six charges, including assaulting his wife, Jacqui, threatening to kill her daughter and threatening to kick the family's 60-year-old domestic worker until she "urinated herself".
Mofokeng is out on R1000 bail and the couple is in the middle of a divorce.
Mofokeng allegedly sent his wife an SMS telling her he wanted to fetch his clothes from their home in Irene on the afternoon of February 24 last year.
Testifying yesterday in the court, Jacqui Mofokeng said she was on the phone to her lawyer about her husband's SMS when she heard him shouting at the domestic worker, calling her "a witch".
Jacqui Mofokeng said she then left the bedroom and went to find out what was happening in the kitchen.
She said Mofokeng then called her a b***h, slapped her in the face and tried to hit her again. She told the court he then hit her against the wall and "threw me to the floor and kicked me".
She said Mofokeng's companion intervened.
Mofokeng's lawyer, Lehlohonolo Adonisi, said Jacqui Mofokeng's account was a "fabrication", and said his client did not contravene the protection order as it did not state that he should get her permission before going to their house.
He also produced a medical report which allegedly contradicted her injury claims.
During testimony yesterday, Mofokeng said his wife's response to his SMS was that she was not at home and had changed the locks. He said the domestic worker gave him the bedroom key and "I unlocked the door but there was some resistance from inside".
He forced the door open and "I found her lying on the floor".
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