Seven months after Zwide doctor Bantu Noqekwa was strapped to a bed in his surgery and fatally shot in an apparent hit, his distraught family sobbed after a judge overturned a decision to deny bail to the alleged mastermind his ex-wife.
A Gqeberha woman accused of the hit murder of doctor Bantu Noqekwa will remain behind bars until 2024 pending the outcome of her appeal against the decision to deny her bail.
As four suspected hitmen and the alleged mastermind behind Dr Bantu Noqekwa’s murder stood shoulder-to-shoulder in the dock on Thursday appearing together for the first time it emerged that two of the men, already charged with a mass shooting in Kwazakhele, had been slapped with additional murder charges.
After a 48-hour uninterrupted power cut at the New Brighton Magistrate’s Court, all bail applications including that of the three accused of the hit murder of Dr Bantu Noqekwa had to be postponed on Friday.
Higher education minister Blade Nzimande condemned continued attacks on tertiary students after nine students were either murdered or assaulted in one month.