{"id":916484,"date":"2022-01-15T11:32:51","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T11:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/15\/goodnews-for-zandile-mafe-as-he-walks-one-step-to-freedom-but-see-julius-malemas-reaction\/"},"modified":"2022-01-15T11:32:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T11:32:51","slug":"goodnews-for-zandile-mafe-as-he-walks-one-step-to-freedom-but-see-julius-malemas-reaction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/15\/goodnews-for-zandile-mafe-as-he-walks-one-step-to-freedom-but-see-julius-malemas-reaction-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodnews For Zandile Mafe As He Walks One Step To Freedom, But See Julius Malema&#8217;s Reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/95620c58c122434d886197f596fc02b5\"\/><strong>Opinion<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Finally some goodnews for Zandile Christmas Mafe, the allegedly parliament arsonist and prime suspect of the alleged burning has been reported. After series of court hearing, Zandile Mafe was subjected to psychiatric evaluation to determine his mental status and has been proven mentally okay, the good news for Zandile Mafe is that he has finally been granted a court hearing where is bail will be discussed and he will get to meet his family once again [Read more].<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Zandile Mafe will appears before the Cape Town Magistrates Court. An urgent hearing is expected at Cape Town&#8217;s Supreme Court on Saturday morning for the release of suspected Parliament arsonist Zandil Christmas Mafe.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/0205f09cab9a4964a7c80e0433e2b608\"\/>Mafe began a 30-day psychiatric observation at Valkenberg Mental Hospital on Thursday after being provided with a bed. He was arrested over a fire that destroyed parts of Parliament earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the NPA requested that the accused be referred to a mental hospital for psychiatric follow-up after being diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.<\/p>\n<p>NPA spokesman Eric Ntabazalila said: \u201cThe NPA can confirm that it has received notification of an urgent bail application to the Supreme Court of South Africa, Western Cape Division, for Zandile Christmas Mafe.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/afbfd64fb23a4229bee7daf3e4f62c3c\"\/>EFF leader Julius Malema, meanwhile, said negligence was the main cause of the recent fires that destroyed the National Assembly buildings of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>He said the arrest of so-called suspect Zandil Mafe was used as a scapegoat to distract from government negligence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you think someone in their right mind would burn the Parliament and then sleep where he committed a crime.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/918d59c00c07410db748fee67e0ddd90\"\/> it doesn&#8217;t exist. So mostly, guys, I think that&#8217;s negligence. &#8220;They don&#8217;t support Parliament, you can tell that rats eat wires. So it started burning from the roof and there was a spark and the spark started a fire,&#8221; Malema said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: https:\/\/youtu.be\/DXwDQB_ZUrA , https:\/\/youtu.be\/A5ojm26HfQM<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, do you think Julius malema is making sense or is he just beating around the bush? What do you think about Zandile Mafe&#8217;s case?<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Mzansi_Media (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nCape Town<br \/>\n NPA<br \/>\nSupreme Court<br \/>\nZandile<br \/>\nZandile Mafe<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion Finally some goodnews for Zandile Christmas Mafe, the allegedly parliament arsonist and prime suspect of the alleged burning has been reported. After series of court hearing, Zandile Mafe was subjected to psychiatric evaluation to determine his mental status and has been proven mentally okay, the good news for Zandile Mafe is that he has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}