The grandson of Nelson Mandela who is charged with raping a teenage girl will once again have to adhere to the strict bail conditions imposed on him when he was first released.

The 24-year-old man appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday‚ where his attorney Melvin Neale asked the court to reinstate his original bail conditions.

Prosecutor Cosmos Mbhele had asked the court to revoke the man’s bail because he allegedly‚ according to media reports‚ violated his bail conditions by contacting the complainant in the rape case on a social media platform.

The man‚ who can by law not be named until he has pleaded because of the sexual nature of the charges‚ faces charges of rape‚ attempted rape and sexual assault after he allegedly assaulted the 15-year-old girl in an alley outside a restaurant in Greenside‚ Johannesburg‚ on August 7.

In his bail application‚ he admitted that he had sex with the girl but said it was consensual. He also said he believed she was older than 16.

He was released on bail of R7000 on August 25. He approached the court a few days later to have his bail conditions amended so that he could receive treatment for alleged depression and post-traumatic stress disorder at One Military Hospital in Pretoria.

Neale asked magistrate Pieter du Plessis on Monday to revoke these amended bail conditions and the magistrate agreed.

The original conditions of the man’s bail included that he lives at the residential address he gave the investigating officer‚ which is the late Nelson Mandela’s Houghton home‚ and report to the police in Norwood twice a week. He may not contact any of the witnesses or the complainant. He may not leave Gauteng without the consent of the investigating officer and he may not be in possession of any travel documents.

Mbhele asked for the matter to be postponed to a later date for further investigation.

The case was postponed to December 14.