Controversial blogger Musa Khawula was arrested in a Western Cape court after appearing on a murder charge.
The arrest was made at the Vredenburg magistrate’s court last Tuesday, where he was charged with murder.
After the appearance, the sheriff of the court arrived in court. He informed the court that he had a warrant of arrest for Khawula for a civil case in Gauteng.
Damning allegations against Fikile Mbalula’s wife
Khawula made damning allegations against Nozuko Mbalula, the wife of ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula, and her business partner Michelle Perrow in May.
The pair obtained an interdict against Khawula following the allegations he made on the social media platform X. Khawula alleged that Mbalula and Perrow paid a bribe to secure government tenders worth R150-million between 2013 and 2019.
Court documents, shared by Fikile Mbalula on X, reveal that Khawula has been ordered to pay damages to the applicants. He is also ordered to cover the legal costs of the application. The blogger is to also remove the defamatory statements from his X feed. This he must do within 48 hours of the order being granted.
Khawula was also ordered to pay R1-million in damages to Mbalula and Perrow. But he took to his X account and said he did not have that kind of money.
National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) Western Cape spokesperson Eric Ntabazalila confirmed the matter. He said Khawula was arrested at the Vredenburg magistrate’s court. His murder case was remanded to August 7, 2024 for judicial review, Ntabazalila said.
2022 murder case
Khawula has been in court for the murder case of Wandile Khambule. Sunday World reported in August 2022 that the girlfriend of Khambule, Sweetness Jaftha, said on March 4, 2022, Khawula rocked up at her residence in Vredenburg, on the west coast, at about 5pm and demanded to see Khambule.
“Khambule refused to speak to him. And he said he was not interested in what he wanted to say because he was not interested in him romantically. I then asked them to go [and] speak outside because there were other people in the house,” said Japhta.
The pair went out and, in less than five seconds, Japhta “heard people screaming ‘don’t stab him’.”
“When I checked to see what was happening outside, I saw Khawula running after Khambule with a big knife [and] stabbing him. He fell in front of my brother’s bakkie. I then asked one of my friends to go and try to stop what was happening. He stabbed him in the chest and at the back.”
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