The two men arrested in the Kingdom of Eswatini for the murder of Kiernan ‘AKA’ Forbes and Tebello ‘Tibz’ Motsoane intend to oppose the extradition application filed by South Africa.
Siyabonga and Malusi Ndimande appeared briefly at the Manzini Magistrate’s Court again today.
They are further accused of killing more people on separate occasions in KwaZulu-Natal last year. Their lawyer, Sivesonkhe Ngwenya says they are not happy with the extradition application filed by South Africa.
“We have already filed our notice of intention to oppose the extradition application, which was initially filed by the offices of the director of public prosecutions. “What was supposed to happen is that we should have filed our opposing affidavits.”. However, we were not able to do so because, after a perusal of the initial application, we then sent a request for further particulars so we could plead properly to what was being specifically requested by the director of public prosecutions. “
The Manzini Magistrate’s Court gave the defense until the 24 May to file an opposing affidavit. Meanwhile, the state was given until May 10 to file their affidavit. Ngwenya and others are demanding safety assurances during and after extradition.
“So, today in court we made a formal application rather to indicate before court that we intend to apply a request for further particulars by agreement between the office of the DPP. We reached a point where we said, let’s file a full-blown application and they will file papers to indicate whether or not the request for further particulars is opposed or allowed and then we will return to court to deliberate on that specific application before we plead.”
The matter has been postponed to 14 May and the suspects have been remanded in custody.
