MBOMBELA – The family of a 24-year-old man who had been badly beaten and left for dead seven years ago, still nursed hopes that the case would come to an end.
Last Friday the Nelspruit Magistrate’s Court postponed its judgement over the attempted-murder case against the four accused, Messrs Bongani Ngomane, Veli Methula, Sifiso Ngoma and Vusi Sambo, who had allegedly assaulted Mr Lucas Mohlala with beer bottles, bricks and kicked him after accusing him of telling a local businessman how he had witnessed them hiding stolen property.
Mohlala told the court that the accused wouldn’t listen to him even when he had pleaded for mercy and was left unconscious. Mohlala who was now bedridden, previously gave his emotional testimony, while lying in a bed specially prepared for him, from the intermediary room, while the magistrate and everyone who attended, heard it.
Mohlala narrated how on November 8, 2008, he had been assaulted and left unconscious.
In their defence Ngomane and Methula both claimed that an eyewitness who implicated them in the matter was a prostitute and demanded more money from them which they wouldn’t pay, therefore she came forward.
The court postponed the case to July 29. Three of the accused were released on warning and one of them was out on bail.
