/ 23 September 1999

MEC GETS BAIL ON MURDER CHARGE

MPUMALANGA’S former safety and security MEC Luckson Mathebula was granted bail by the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday. Mathebula and four others were arrested and charged with murdering his ex-wife, Aletta Rose Mnisi, in the Bushbuckridge area in July. Two of Mathebula’s co-accused, Moses Sambo and Moses Mathebula, were released on R50000 bail each. The third suspect, traditional healer Jimmy Chauke, got bail of R1000.