Bail or death – accused

13 April 2007

PAUL KIRK
DURBAN – High-profile church leaders are expected at a bail hearing today when a group of five shack residents accused of murder appear in the Durban Magistrate’s Court.

The five, all members of the Durban group Abahlali Base Mjondolo, have been on a hunger strike in Westville Prison for 12 days.

They are accused of murdering Mzwakhe Sithole, 26, whom the State alleges they beat to death with the assistance of others who have yet to be arrested.

Sithole allegedly mugged and stabbed a resident of the Kennedy Road informal settlement who was out jogging – leaving him for dead after taking his running shoes.