MPUMALANGA’S former environmental affairs MEC Luckson Mathebula is due to appear in court for a second bail application on Thursday after being charged with the assassination of his estranged wife. The two gunmen who murdered Rose Aletta Mnisi in front of a group of primary school children are still at large but police arrested Mathebula along with a girlfriend and a traditional healer on conspiracy to murder charges last week. The girlfriend, Pretty Thembi Gama, allegedly provided the getaway car and the 7,65mm pistol used to shoot Mnisi at pointblank range in the back of her head on Wednesday two weeks ago. Chauke has been denied bail and remanded to police custody until July 5 but Mathebula and Gama will both appear in the Lulekani Circuit Court near Phalaborwa on Thursday.