Pic: Siyabonga Sesant
A Gqeberha biker who faces attempted murder and malicious damage to property charges was a no-show in the local magistrate's court on Wednesday morning because he still had to participate in an identity parade.
Algoa FM News understands the ID parade which was meant to take place last Friday, could not happen because of technical challenges.
The court made an order for the 29-year-old's name to be withheld due to the pending identity parade.
The case against the suspect was postponed – with him in absentia – until 30 August.
He remains out on R2000 bail.
Members of the ANC Youth League, who held up anti-gender-based violence placards, protested outside the court.
The man allegedly assaulted a 35-year-old woman in June following an accident in Circular Drive and a video of the incident went viral on social media.
The woman had called her boyfriend to come and support her at the scene when some sort of altercation broke out which she then filmed on her phone.
National ANC Youth League fund-raiser, Thuthukile Zuma, said she was at court on Wednesday to support the woman.
"As the ANC Youth League we have a very strong stance against gender-based violence and racism as it continues to rear its ugly head in our society. Our members, our leaders [and] our volunteers go to court almost on a daily basis attending similar cases to this one, of gender-based violence, of femicide, of sexual harassment across the country. We did not specifically choose this case, but we definitely support it," said Zuma.
