Mpumalanga's former Environmental Affairs MEC, Luckson Mathebula, is due to appear in court for a second bail application today after being charged with the assassination of his estranged wife. The two gunmen who murdered Rose Aletta Mnisi in front of a group of primary school children are still at large, but police arrested Mathebula along with a girlfriend and a traditional healer on conspiracy to murder charges last week.
The girlfriend, Pretty Thembi Gama, allegedly provided the getaway car and the 7.65mm pistol used to shoot Mnisi at point-blank range in the back of her head two weeks ago. The traditional healer, Jimmy Chauke, allegedly blessed the assassination plot and provided muti to 'protect' the killers. Chauke has been denied bail and was remanded until July 5, but Mathebula and Gama will both appear in the Lulekani Circuit Court near Phalaborwa today. Both are in custody after they were refused bail last Friday.
Police are also still attempting to track the gunman and his getaway driver after they backed out of a deal to surrender to police last week. The alleged killers initially offered to surrender through Mathebula's attorney, Francis Legodi, but backed out at the last minute and have since disappeared. Investigating officer Superintendent Hennie Lochner has confirmed that he was probing reports that a woman with the same name as Mnisi was murdered in almost identical circumstances three weeks ago.
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