Momberg continues to ‘abuse’ black officials, even in jail – report
Prison officials have reportedly complained they were verbally attacked, unprovoked, while transporting Momberg back to jail.
Convicted racist Vicky Momberg sits in the dock at the Randburg Magistrates Court on 11 April 2018. Momberg appeared back in court during a sentencing appeal. Picture: Yeshiel Panchia
A report in Sunday World has claimed that convicted racist Vicki Momberg has not yet corrected her attitude towards black people, and that she allegedly told prison warders they were “under-educated and stupid, and that black people lacked intelligence”.
The paper said one of the warders almost struck her in retaliation, in an incident that allegedly happened on Wednesday when the officials were taking her from the Randburg Magistrate’s Court to Sun City prison.
She had just been denied leave to appeal her sentence.
They then reportedly called the National Prosecuting Authority for legal advice. A court official overheard that conversation, and said the officials were complaining that Momberg’s attack on them was completely unprovoked.
The claims, if true, may give credence to suggestions that Momberg has not shown remorse for the actions that saw her getting a three-year prison sentence, with one year suspended.
If she had shown true compunction, she may have escaped her two-year effective sentence on four counts of crimen injuria.
She was earlier also ordered by the Equality Court to pay R100 000 to Constable David Makhondo, the police officer at whom Momberg had directed her racist tirade in 2016.
Advocate Manni Witz told The Citizen two weeks ago that remorse was probably the most important part of any case when it came to sentencing.
Simply pleading guilty and apologising was no longer enough, Witz said.
“One k****r is bad enough. This happens all the time, all the time. The k****rs here in Johannesburg are terrible, I’m so sick of it,” Momburg was recorded in in just two of 48 instances of her use of the racial slur.
