MORNING Yoga in a prison cell catapults me out of E-Section, the door literally unlocks itself as I am lead away by a large Afrikaner warden, only too pleased to see me. I am once again processed for the transport to Caledon Square, the holding cells at the Magistrates Courts, in which one is lucky to survive, the coming and going.

This story is a continuation from Part One.

Eventually I am called. I am not asked to plead. Instead there is a preliminary hearing in which Zulpha Khan is called, along with her witness, who is unable to corroborate her story.

Jennings asks Zulpha. In your first statement you mention he was brandishing bombs, in your second you say guns. Zulpha where were the bombs?

Zulpha is at a loss to explain her own statements. Admits there was no such incident.

There are now three separate conflicting statements, a literal Rashomon story.

Judge Phindi Norman looks directly at me. Well, in that case, Mr Lewis is free to go.

The press meanwhile, are going to town about my hair, or lack thereof, and repeating their baldfaced lies. As if there was any substance to the allegations made by their angel oracle. Accordingly:

‘A botched charge sheet on Friday led to the acquittal of a journalist who in May allegedly threatened to blow up the Cape Town premises of Radio Heart if his grievances were not aired.

‘David Robert Lewis (39) appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court before magistrate Phindi Norman, who said she would give a proper judgement later if required.

‘Lewis’s hearing was a sequel to an incident on May 24, when he entered Radio Heart’s premises in a highly agitated state and demanded to speak to the news editor.

‘In an affidavit to his attorney, Mike Jennings, Lewis said a story he had written about a black musician (not involving Radio Heart) had been rejected due to alleged racism. This had caused him to file a case alleging discrimination with the Labour Court.

‘He said he had wanted to speak to Radio Heart’s news editor about the Labour Court case, but ended up with news anchor Zulpha Khan, who had refused to go on air with his story.

‘The charge sheet in the case initially alleged assault with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm, but was later changed to alleged ”assault by threat”. Lawyers who did not want to be named said the charge should have alleged intimidation.

‘Norman said the charge sheet as it stood alleged that Lewis had assaulted Khan by threatening to ”blow up everything and the place”.

‘However, Khan’s version was that Lewis had said he would ”blow the place up with machine guns”.

‘Norman said the testimony of Khan, the alleged victim, did not support the charge that Lewis had threatened to blow up ”everything and the place”.

‘He agreed with Jennings that whatever Lewis had said, it could not have created an immediate danger, and that for this reason there was no case for Lewis to meet.

‘When the police arrived, Khan had in fact told them that she was not even certain whether she had wanted to lay a charge, Norman said.

After bail had been posted by my late father Derrick, one of the few to support my predicament, even though he did not understand it, SAPS took me and placed me in a room with one of the numbers gangsters. The gangster says: ‘I believe in you.’

More mind games by the constabulary.

Meanwhile the Khayalitsha gang had bonded like brothers.

A week later I am walking down Woodstock Main Rd, and they are literally behind me. The one says: So where we going? The other replies, is he still doing yoga?

At some point during my custody in Caledon Square I am confronted with a folder, apparently there is a file linking me to an organization called Poqo, the armed wing of the Pan African Congress. I refuse to speak to the detective, he has no right to my views on the late Rissik Haribhai “Barney” Desai.