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July 2027 is the new date for Katiso "KT" Molefe's murder trial. · Drive with John Perlman

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  Speaker 1: From that story, we go to this one, the Johannesburg
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  Speaker 1: High Court attending, has been engaged with the trial of
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  Speaker 1: the people, including the businessman, Katiso Keiti-Mulife, who is charged
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  Speaker 1: with the murder of the music industry figure DJ Somebody.
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  Speaker 1: Let's find out what happened in the court then today.
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  Speaker 1: Demokatsuo Leshoro, EWN reporter, was there. Demokatsuo, I understand that
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  Speaker 1: there were Again, procedural issues rather than the leading of evidence.
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  Speaker 1: What are the courts here and what's going to happen next?
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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, John. So the case was postponed. We were expecting
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  Speaker 2: the postponement, John, because of the Matala trial and how
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  Speaker 2: these intertwined is because in the Matala trial, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure if you recall, but there is a trial within
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  Speaker 2: a trial regarding the evidence, the admissibility of evidence. This
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  Speaker 2: evidence includes weapons that were used in the attempted murders
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  Speaker 2: in that trial. This case, the same weapons are alleged
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  Speaker 2: to have been used in the murders in this case. So,
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  Speaker 2: because that trial has not been concluded, this case, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it can't go forward until a decision has been made
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  Speaker 2: on whether those weapons are admitted into evidence. The weapons
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  Speaker 2: in the car was used specifically in the murder of
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  Speaker 2: Aman Swat. That's the car. But the weapons were linked
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  Speaker 2: to the cases that involve now Khatisa Molefe and the
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  Speaker 2: same accused, two of them at least, Diakho Mabusele as
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  Speaker 2: well as have been accused in the Matala trial. They
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  Speaker 2: are also standing trial in this matter. So the same
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  Speaker 2: prosecutors are involved in the Matala trial. They're involved in
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  Speaker 2: this trial. The same advocates, lawyers are involved in both trials.
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  Speaker 2: So before the trial post, the Matala trial that is,
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  Speaker 2: The judge had made a ruling that that trial, because
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  Speaker 2: it's already started, has to proceed until the end before
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  Speaker 2: this matter can proceed. So today when we went to court,
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  Speaker 2: we were expecting the matter to be postponed. It's been
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  Speaker 2: agreed that it will proceed in the third term of
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  Speaker 2: next year on the 19th of July. Hopefully by then
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  Speaker 2: the trial, the Matala trial, would have been concluded because...
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  Speaker 2: It started in July, and it's been very slow, John.
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  Speaker 2: We've only had a few witnesses, and we are still
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  Speaker 2: dealing with the issue of a trial within a trial.
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  Speaker 2: And keep in mind that we are expecting Matala himself
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  Speaker 2: to challenge the evidence against him. So we will be...
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  Speaker 2: sitting with another trial within a trial after this first
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  Speaker 2: one is concluded. So that's where we are. Ketisomo Lefe
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  Speaker 2: is on R500, 000 bail. They've adjusted his bail conditions in
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  Speaker 2: the sense that he had to report to police station
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  Speaker 2: three times a week, but they said he can report
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  Speaker 2: anywhere within South Africa after making arrangements with the NPA.
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  Speaker 2: The rest are in custody.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Dimakatsu Leshoro, a very, very important
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  Speaker 1: trial indeed. And we'll report progress as soon as there
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  Speaker 1: is any. One of the advocates involved in the, or
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  Speaker 1: the prosecutor rather, Elise Krier, described the pace of the
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  Speaker 1: trial as glacial. And yeah, I think we all know,
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  Speaker 1: not that I've ever witnessed a glacier moving, but apparently
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  Speaker 1: it takes a while. 702 Drive, 29 minutes to four.