South Africa: Witness says members of Mashitile’s convoy left him unconscious on N1

The case involving eight officers attached to Deputy President Paul Mashatile’s VIP protection unit was back in the Randburg Magistrates’ Court on Monday, with the defence cross-examining the State’s first witness — who was allegedly assaulted by the eight officers on the N1 highway in Johannesburg in July 2023.

During a previous hearing, the authenticity of a 57-second video which depicts the protection unit members punching and kicking the occupants of a car they had stopped on…