/ 10 March 1999

PUPIL IN COURT ON MURDER CHARGE

THE 18-year-old Townview High School pupil accused of killing teacher Andreas Werth last Friday appeared briefly in the Krugersdorp Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, SABC radio news reports. Justus Machafa appeared on charges of murder, housebreaking, theft and possession of an unlicensed firearm and was remanded pending a bail application on March 16. Machafa, who handed himself into Johannesburg police on Sunday night, allegedly shot the teacher in front of a Grade 8 class.

 

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