{"id":920505,"date":"2022-01-29T06:49:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T06:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/29\/parliament-fire-suspect-zandile-mafe-expected-to-apply-for-bail\/"},"modified":"2022-01-29T06:49:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T06:49:04","slug":"parliament-fire-suspect-zandile-mafe-expected-to-apply-for-bail-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/29\/parliament-fire-suspect-zandile-mafe-expected-to-apply-for-bail-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament fire suspect Zandile Mafe expected to apply for bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1abb36b5-c43a-58f3-9ae5-2b448510a0fb&#038;operation=CROP&#038;offset=0x0&#038;resize=3541x1992.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div><!--sse--><\/p>\n<p>Durban &#8211; Zandile Mafe, the man accused of starting a fire at Parliament earlier this month, is expected to apply for bail.<\/p>\n<p>He is expected to appear in the Cape Town Regional Court at 10am.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Mafe&#8217;s bail application was postponed last week after he contracted Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>He faces a raft of charges including arson, theft and terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Western Cape High Court overturned an earlier decision for Mafe to be sent to the Valkenberg Psychiatric Hospital for mental evaluation.<\/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>Judge President John Hlophe further stated that Mafe be released from the facility.<\/p>\n<p>He added that further detention of Mafe is unlawful and should come to an end with immediate effect. Judge President John Hlophe said further detention of Mafe was unlawful.<\/p>\n<p>He ordered that Mafe be moved to a holding cell pending his upcoming bail application. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The State plans to oppose Mafe\u2019s bail application.<\/p>\n<p><strong id=\"strong-0680504b3484331db80f61eb9db8df17\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--\/sse--><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Durban &#8211; Zandile Mafe, the man accused of starting a fire at Parliament earlier this month, is expected to apply for bail. He is expected to appear in the Cape Town Regional Court at 10am. Mafe&#8217;s bail application was postponed last week after he contracted Covid-19. He faces a raft of charges including arson, theft [&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-920505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920505","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=920505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}