A 41-year old man, Mandla Jim MAGUDULELA, appeared in Johannesburg Regional Court on 23 August charged under the Terrorism Act (no details given). The case was remanded to Kempton Park Regional Court on 9 October.
One of those convicted in the Bethal trial, Johnson Vusumuzi NYATHI (sentenced to ten years') has been charged with a fresh offence in Krugersdorp Magistrate's Court, that of attempting to escape.
While in detention, Nyathi fell from a window in Krugersdorp police station and was subsequently in hospital for several months. He later sued the Minister of Police unsuccessfully for damages, claiming that he had been assaulted and thrown out of the window
Now it appears that the state is responding by charging Nyathi, already a prisoner, with jumping out of the window in an escape attempt
