{"id":916499,"date":"2022-01-15T12:31:57","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T12:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/15\/court-postpones-zandile-mafes-bail-application\/"},"modified":"2022-01-15T12:31:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T12:31:57","slug":"court-postpones-zandile-mafes-bail-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/15\/court-postpones-zandile-mafes-bail-application\/","title":{"rendered":"Court postpones Zandile Mafe\u2019s bail application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1642249917_508_b6ff7ef4-0b90-5386-9304-308cb4e58a60&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=0x162&#038;resize=5521x3106.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div><!--sse--><\/p>\n<p>Durban &#8211; THE Western Cape has postponed Zandile Mafe&#8217;s bail application to next week.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NPA this is because Mafe&#8217;s legal team wants to challenge their client&#8217;s referral to a psychiatric hospital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>NPA spokesperson Eric Ntabazalila said the defence is going to amend its notion to include their challenge on the referral.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to deal with that first. That will be dealt with on Tuesday and the bail application will be dealt with on Saturday,&#8221; he told the media.<\/p>\n<p>Mafe is accused of starting a fire at the Parliament precinct on January 2. He was not in court on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"RelatedArticlescss__StyledRelatedArticles-sc-10g88yu-0 ezIKFV\">\n<h2><span>MORE ON THIS<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Hawks have revealed that more arrests are expected in the coming weeks. <\/p>\n<p>Mafe is currently being treated at the Valkenburg Psychiatric Hospital in Cape Town. <\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"strong-f62fc9d5f5c39ab85843e8e254bb5e6b\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Durban &#8211; THE Western Cape has postponed Zandile Mafe&#8217;s bail application to next week. According to the NPA this is because Mafe&#8217;s legal team wants to challenge their client&#8217;s referral to a psychiatric hospital. NPA spokesperson Eric Ntabazalila said the defence is going to amend its notion to include their challenge on the referral. &#8220;We [&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-916499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916499","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=916499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}