A South African court on Monday granted Nhlanhla “Lux” Dlamini a R1500 bail in his housebreaking and malicious damage to property case.
Nhlanhla Dlamini is a man known as the pioneer of Operation Dudula, which means “drive back” in the Zulu language.
Magistrate Ruby Mathys also ordered him to surrender his passport and stop communicating with the case’s complainant.
As part of his bail requirements, he was instructed: “Do not send anybody there. Do not communicate with electronic means, telephone, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, whatever you can think of. You are not supposed to communicate with this complainant if there is any complaint about that the court may inquire about that if the court finds you have breached that condition your bail may be canceled.”
On Thursday, March 24, Dlamini was arrested following a staged anti-xenophobia rally after the disturbing rise in anti-migrant sentiment in South Africa.
He, however, said he’s defending South African workers.
South Africa, which is home to over three million refugees, asylum seekers, and migrant workers, has over the years, been recurrently plagued by xenophobic violence.
The world witnessed instances of such dastardly acts in 2015, 2016, and again in 2019.
