Sindiso magaqa
Sindiso Magaqa's family feel unsafe after 3 men accused of his murder get bail
Magaqa was shot in July 2017 and succumbed to his injuries in hospital. He was an ANC councillor at the time.
Mbulelo Mpofana, Sibonelo Myeza, and Mlungisi Ncalane appeared in the Ixopo Magistrates Court, in KwaZulu-Natal, and were granted bail while their co-accused Sibusiso Ncengwa, who did not apply for bail, remains in custody.
Ndobe was laid to rest on Saturday at a category two official provincial funeral at his ancestral home of Umzimkhulu.
Mluleki Ndobe, who was battling cancer, died at his Durban home in the early of this morning with a gunshot wound to his chest.
Mluleki Ndobe was a former mayor of the Harry Gwala District Municipality and was linked to the 2017 murder of ANC Youth League leader Sindiso Magaqa.
He's among the whistle-blowers in the Sindiso Magaqa murder case.
Thabiso Zulu is one of the whistleblowers whose given details about the murder of former African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) secretary Sindiso Magaqa.
Thabiso Zulu, one of the whistle-blowers in the Sindiso Magaqa murder case, went into hiding after he was shot and wounded on the arm at the weekend.
The police's Jay Naicker said Thabiso Zulu was walking with a friend in Pietermaritzburg when three gunmen got out of a vehicle and shot at them on Saturday night.
KZN police said they are trying to locate Zulu as they investigate a case of attempted murder after he was shot in the arm during an ambush on Saturday night.
Thabiso Zulu is one of the officials who lifted the lid on Sindiso Magaqa’s murder.
The trial against four men accused of Magaqa’s murder was postponed to April next year in the High Court in Scottburgh.
The trial was postponed as three of the accused did not have legal representation.
At the time of his death, his supporters claimed he was murdered for speaking out against corruption within the uMzimkhulu Municipality.
Magaqa was shot and killed in uMzimkhulu, in the KwaZulu-Natal south coast, in 2017.
The trio was denied bail last month after they failed to convince the court that they were not flight risks.
Mluleki Ndobe, who is accused of masterminding the murder of former ANCYL secretary Sindiso Magaqa, was elected on Wednesday after Sihle Zikalala was declared as the new premier of KwaZulu-Natal.
Cele briefed the media on Thursday morning about that progress made in several cases relating to violence in KZN, including the murder of ANC Youth League general-secretary Sindiso Magaqa.
Harry Gwala District Mayor Mluleki Ndobe and municipal manager Zweliphansi Skhosana were arrested last week in connection with the murder of former ANC Youth League leader Sindiso Magaqa in 2017.