One of the five men accused of killing two University of Fort Hare employees has asked the court to release him on bail because his two girlfriends are pregnant and that his three minor children are also suffering due to his incarceration.
Just months before he was shot and killed on the way home from work, University of Fort Hare fleet manager Petrus Roets pleaded for permission to carry a weapon on campus as criminals mounted a violent fightback against a corruption cleanup by vice-chancellor Prof Sakhela Buhlungu.
One of the accused in the murders of two University of Fort Hare employees, Petrus Roets and Mboneli Vesele, had called his co-accused to ask for Roets’ physical address before he was gunned down.
Unions in the higher education and training sector have alleged that at least five of their members who are staffers at the embattled University of Fort Hare (UFH) were kidnapped, assaulted and tortured by people who identified themselves as police.