ANC member Simon Mollo Modihe, the first person to die when violence broke out last week in Tshwane over the party's mayoral candidate, was shot while chasing his alleged killer.
ANC member Simon Mollo Modihe, the first person to die when violence broke out last week in Tshwane over the party's mayoral candidate, was shot while chasing his alleged killer.
The Pretoria Magistrate's Court heard yesterday that fellow ANC member Justice Mashola, 36, was being chased down the street when he fired two fatal shots.
Prosecutor Sipho Letsoalo told the court that Mashola was fleeing a crowd that was pursuing him after he had fired a shot at an opposing camp outside the Tshwane Events Centre two Sundays ago. The ANC members were there for a briefing on who would be the party's mayoral candidate for the City of Tshwane.
"There was an altercation between two groups of people who were there for the same purpose," Letsoalo said. "During that altercation a shot was fired by the accused and he ran away. That shot was fired into the crowd and the people started giving chase. The accused ran to a nearby shop.
"The deceased . was the one closest to him. The accused then fired two shots at the deceased. He hit the deceased twice on the upper thigh," Letsoalo said.
Modihe, 38, died a while later in hospital.
Letsoalo said Mashola went to Limpopo after the incident.
"Upon being told police were looking for him, he came back. That was when he handed himself to police."
Letsoalo did not oppose Mashola's bail application.
Yesterday's court appearance was Mashola's first since his arrest and being charged with a count of murder on Tuesday.
Wearing a camouflage jacket, Mashola hid his face from cameras during the appearance.
Counting in his favour in the granting of R2000 bail were that he was a first-time offender, does not have a passport nor family outside South Africa and has a three-year-old child with his unemployed wife.
His lawyer told the court that Mashola took care of his family in Lotus, west of Pretoria central, with the R9000 salary he receives as an administrative clerk in the office of City of Tshwane speaker Morakane Mosupyoe-Letsholo.
Mashola is secretary of the ANC's Simunye branch in central Pretoria. He was elected in January. He is intending to plead not guilty.
nkosib@sowetan.co.za
Chase led to Tshwane killing
ANC member Simon Mollo Modihe, the first person to die when violence broke out last week in Tshwane over the party's mayoral candidate, was shot while chasing his alleged killer.
ANC member Simon Mollo Modihe, the first person to die when violence broke out last week in Tshwane over the party's mayoral candidate, was shot while chasing his alleged killer.
The Pretoria Magistrate's Court heard yesterday that fellow ANC member Justice Mashola, 36, was being chased down the street when he fired two fatal shots.
Prosecutor Sipho Letsoalo told the court that Mashola was fleeing a crowd that was pursuing him after he had fired a shot at an opposing camp outside the Tshwane Events Centre two Sundays ago. The ANC members were there for a briefing on who would be the party's mayoral candidate for the City of Tshwane.
"There was an altercation between two groups of people who were there for the same purpose," Letsoalo said. "During that altercation a shot was fired by the accused and he ran away. That shot was fired into the crowd and the people started giving chase. The accused ran to a nearby shop.
"The deceased . was the one closest to him. The accused then fired two shots at the deceased. He hit the deceased twice on the upper thigh," Letsoalo said.
Modihe, 38, died a while later in hospital.
Letsoalo said Mashola went to Limpopo after the incident.
"Upon being told police were looking for him, he came back. That was when he handed himself to police."
Letsoalo did not oppose Mashola's bail application.
Yesterday's court appearance was Mashola's first since his arrest and being charged with a count of murder on Tuesday.
Wearing a camouflage jacket, Mashola hid his face from cameras during the appearance.
Counting in his favour in the granting of R2000 bail were that he was a first-time offender, does not have a passport nor family outside South Africa and has a three-year-old child with his unemployed wife.
His lawyer told the court that Mashola took care of his family in Lotus, west of Pretoria central, with the R9000 salary he receives as an administrative clerk in the office of City of Tshwane speaker Morakane Mosupyoe-Letsholo.
Mashola is secretary of the ANC's Simunye branch in central Pretoria. He was elected in January. He is intending to plead not guilty.
nkosib@sowetan.co.za
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