In an 11th hour move, two former University of Fort Hare employees, accused of being behind the killing of two university officials and attempted murder of the vice-chancellor, abandoned their bail bid.
Lawyers of the five men accused of murdering two University of Fort Hare employees clubbed together to buy diesel after it emerged that the Dimbaza Magistrate's Court's backup generator had none to power it.
The defence lawyer for two of the five suspects arrested in connection with the murder of two University of Fort Hare employees and a string of other charges has accused the state of singling them out because they are “soft targets”. Delivering his closing arguments in a bail hearing in the Dimbaza magistrate’s court on Friday, attorney Ronny Lesele said the state, in arresting his clients, had disregarded the “big fish” allegedly involved in the killings and corruption at the university.