Blessed Mhlanga @bbmhlanga ‘s lawyer announces at court saying: “You’ll be aware that on the 28th of February, 2025 bail was denied by the magistrate at Rotten Row magistrates court, and Blessed Mhlanga appealed that decision up at the High Court. The matter was scheduled for hearing this morning, and justice Mandaza is presiding over the bail proceedings earlier on in the morning.
I’m Then the state has requested that the bill proceedings be referred to the anti corruption court of the high court, and we objected, as the lawyers for Blessed to that transfer, because as far as we are concerned, there’s absolutely nothing, nothing corrupt or corruption related about the charges that Blessed is facing.
The state’s request was declined by the presiding judge. The matter will therefore now be heard in the ordinary Bail Court, the day after tomorrow, that is on the 12th of March, 2025, the state is yet to furnish us with their response to the bail appeal. It is our hope that by Wednesday, that response would have been furnished to us.
There was an undertaking by the State that by the end of tomorrow, being the 11th of March, 2025 they would have responded to the real appeal. We therefore come back to court on the 12th of March, 2025 for full arguments to be heard by the presiding judge. And it is our hope that at this higher court will prevail, and that place that we will get is liberty back. That is all in terms of current status of the application.”