{"id":92717,"date":"2025-11-10T17:48:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/duduzile-zuma-sambudla-pleads-not-guilty-in-trial"},"modified":"2025-11-10T17:58:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:58:53","slug":"duduzile-zuma-sambudla-pleads-not-guilty-in-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/duduzile-zuma-sambudla-pleads-not-guilty-in-trial","title":{"rendered":"Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla Pleads Not Guilty in Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>The state has concluded leading evidence from its first witness in the incitement case against Member of Parliament, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla.<\/p>\n<p>She faces two counts of public violence and another of incitement to commit terrorism. The charges relate to the July 2021 unrest that swept across KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.<\/p>\n<p>The trial commenced on Monday in the Durban High Court after Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla pleaded not guilty to all the charges.<\/p>\n<p>The state led evidence from its first witness, Police Major General Gopaul Govender.<\/p>\n<p>Govender told the court that a number of WhatsApp groups were formed to rally support for former President Jacob Zuma\u2019s release from prison. However, he admitted that Zuma-Sambudla was not a member of any of these groups.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, Govender testified that her social media account did incite violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt became evident through our investigative methodology that this Twitter account that was registered under the name of the accused before court was indeed being used for the purposes of conveying or inciting followers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, her party, the uMkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party, said the case is political.<\/p>\n<p>Proceedings are set to continue on Tuesday and are expected to proceed for the next two weeks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">South-Africa<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. The state has concluded leading evidence from its first witness in the incitement case against Member of Parliament, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla. She faces two counts of public violence and another of incitement to commit terrorism. The charges relate to the July 2021 unrest that swept across KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. The trial commenced on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":92716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[275],"class_list":["post-92717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-south-africa-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla Pleads Not Guilty in Trial - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The state has concluded leading evidence from its first witness in the incitement case against Member of Parliament, Dud ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/duduzile-zuma-sambudla-pleads-not-guilty-in-trial\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla Pleads Not Guilty in Trial\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The state has concluded leading evidence from its first witness in the incitement case against Member of Parliament, Dud ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/duduzile-zuma-sambudla-pleads-not-guilty-in-trial\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-11-10T17:48:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-11-10T17:58:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/11\/sm_1762784884.299125.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/duduzile-zuma-sambudla-pleads-not-guilty-in-trial#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/duduzile-zuma-sambudla-pleads-not-guilty-in-trial\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla Pleads Not Guilty in Trial\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-11-10T17:48:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-11-10T17:58:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/duduzile-zuma-sambudla-pleads-not-guilty-in-trial\"},\"wordCount\":213,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/duduzile-zuma-sambudla-pleads-not-guilty-in-trial#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/11\/sm_1762784884.299125.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"South-Africa\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/duduzile-zuma-sambudla-pleads-not-guilty-in-trial#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/duduzile-zuma-sambudla-pleads-not-guilty-in-trial\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/duduzile-zuma-sambudla-pleads-not-guilty-in-trial\",\"name\":\"Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla Pleads Not Guilty in Trial - 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