Sporo Mangena wants drug charges to be dropped – report
Former Kaizer Chiefs striker Mike 'Sporo' Mangena’s lawyers will reportedly bring the application.
Former Kaizer Chiefs striker Mike Mangena, middle, after a drug laboratory bust on his property on November 21, 2018 in Randfontein, South Africa. Mangena has been arrested for drug-related charges after police found a drug manufacturing laboratory at his West Rand plot. (Photo by Gallo Images / Sowetan / Thulani Mbebe)
Mangena appeared in the Randfontein Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday morning and his case was postponed to the end of May.
According to The Sowetan, Mangena’s lawyers and those of his co-accused, Morena Maqoaelane, William Kazipata, and Kennedy Tsogolane, want the state to drop the case as they believe there is no evidence linking the accused with the crime.
READ: Sporo Mangena’s ‘drug lab’ case postponed
Mangena and the three other suspects were arrested in November last year after police raided his farm in Hillside, Randfontein, where they found a drug-manufacturing plant.
The former Kaizer Chiefs, Bidvest Wits, Mamelodi Sundowns and Moroka Swallows striker says he had no knowledge of what was happening on the property.
He is out on R50,000 bail while the other three suspects remain in custody.
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