One of the so-called Eikenhof Three, Siphiwe James Bholo, has been remanded in custody after a brief appearance in the Germiston Magistrate’s Court on attempted murder and armed robbery charges, police said on Tuesday.
Bholo was allegedly involved in an attempted cash-in-transit heist outside Duduza in the East Rand on July 11 this year. He and 14 others forced an armoured vehicle off the R550 road. Some of the security guards where injured in the incident. However, Bholo and his accomplices did not manage to take any money.
Spokesperson for the provincial task team investigating the crime, Senior Superintendent Boats Botha, said Bholo handed himself over to police on Monday at his lawyer’s office in Braamfontein.
”A warrant for his arrest was issued about a month ago and his lawyers contacted us and he handed himself over yesterday (Monday),” Botha said.
He will reappear in the Germiston Magistrate’s Court on December 8 for a bail hearing.
Bholo, Boy Titi Ndweni and Sipho Samuel Gavin were jailed for the murder of Zandra Ann Mitchley, her 14-year-old son Shaun Nel and his 13-year-old friend Clare Silberbauer on March 19, 1993. Bholo and Gavin were sentenced to death and Ndweni to 20 years imprisonment. Bholo and Gavin’s death sentences were later
commuted.
Their convictions were questioned after the Pan Africanist Congress claimed responsibility for the attack. They were released in 1999. – Sapa