the magistrate

Advocate Hlatshwayo requested the court impose a condition that witnesses not be contacted or interviewed by the accused, which led the magistrate to require a list of witnesses.

“Advocate Hlatshwayo asked the court to impose a condition that the witnesses not be contacted or interviewed by the accused. The magistrate indicated that he required a list of the witnesses, as he could not simply warn them”

Mr Mogotsi alleges that no one is concerned about why certain people travel long distances to open cases from their area of origin because cases cannot be opened there, referencing an incident where a magistrate recused himself due to attacks by General Mkhwanazi on the presiding officer who imposed bail conditions.

“no one is concerned that why these people are traveling for this so long distance to open cases , because where they come from , cases cannot be opened . When you gave an example earlier , Chair , about the arrest of those Generals , on the 6th of July when General Mkhwanazi spoke , if you could remember how he attacked the presiding officer who imposed those bail conditions . That magistrate also even recused himself from that case .”