Jerome "Donkie" Booysen and his five co-accused, whose drugs trial was supposed to start last year, shook their heads in irritation and snorted "ridiculous" when they heard that the next available date for them in the Western Cape High Court is in 2025.
His body language, which changed from courteous to dismay, roiled down the line in the dock along his co-accused Kenneth Hansen, Kristo Marlens, Clinton Langeveld, Jennen Jansen, and Herbert Zoutman.