The bail applications of three men accused of killing an ANC branch leader are expected to resume in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
Bongukwanda Excellent Gasa, Sipho Innocent Sikhakhane, and Skhulu Phiwayinkosi Gasa were meant to apply for bail on August 2, but their attorney, Laurens de Klerk, asked for a postponement. This was because the State was not satisfied with their residential addresses.
“We were given addresses in the Nkandla area, but those addresses are not appropriate for the State. We still need to verify addresses the defence will give to us,” prosecutor Blackie Swart said at the time.
De Klerk proposed an address for a safe house which could be easily monitored and was near a police station, should the men be granted bail.
The three, who were arrested on July 2, are accused of killing Sithembiso Ngidi, an executive member of the African National Congress Ward 75, Jacobs area branch. Ngidi was shot dead on June 23 after taking part in a door-to-door election campaign in Lamontville, south of Durban. – Sapa