Racist charge: man acquitted

Magistrate Matilda Smith said the testimony from the six state witnesses was the worst she had heard in years.

The Middelburg Magistrate's Court yesterday found Carel Ellis, 43, not guilty of 11 charges, including housebreaking, malicious damage to property, crimen injuria, assault, negligent discharge of a firearm, handling a firearm while under the influence of alcohol, and pointing a firearm.