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Former ANC eMalahleni regional chairman Arthur Zwane in court on charges of attempted murder following the shooting of a security guard in Newcastle.
Arthur Zwane, a senior member of the ANC in Newcastle, who expected to be released on bail on Wednesday after allegedly shooting a security guard who asked him to sanitize, will spend another two days behind bars.
Zwane, who had been in police custody since his arrest on Friday last week, was unable to apply for bail at the eMadadeni Magistrates Court, where he appeared briefly on Wednesday morning because the court had no lights due to power outages. Energy.
A court prosecutor confirmed that the request for bail for Zwane, who is the former regional president of the ANC’s eMalahleni, was moved to Friday.
Zwane faces attempted murder charges in connection with the shooting. Read the original story here.
According to the KwaZulu-Natal police, Zwane, along with two other people, is facing charges of attempted murder after he allegedly shot a security guard at a hardware store in Newcastle.
A fight between the security guard and the three allegedly broke out after the suspects ignored a request from the security guard that they should first disinfect before entering the store.
Zwane, who faces another charge of attempted murder in Durban Magistrates Court for pointing a firearm at MEC Sipho Hlomuka of Cooperative Government and Traditional Affairs (COGTA), first attempted to be released on bail on Friday.
However, the court postponed the matter until today.
Zwane, a former member of the ANC provincial executive committee (PEC), made headlines in November last year after breaking into a meeting of the ANC provincial working committee at the party’s provincial headquarters in Durban.
Former ANC regional president eMalahleni then pointed a firearm at Hlomuka, who later pressed criminal charges.
In January, the Durban trial court released Zwane on bail of 1,000 rand after he turned himself in to the Durban police upon learning that Hlomuka had brought charges against him.
While the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal remained silent on the reasons that led to the confrontation between Zwane and Hlomuka.
The National Provincial Tax Authority (NPA) Natasha Ramkisson, could not be reached for an update on the court case between Zwane and Hlomuka.
While Zwane no longer holds any official positions within the ANC in the province, he remains influential within the ANC in Newcastle and throughout the eMalahleni region.
ANC provincial spokesman Nhlakanipho Ntombela said the party did not have full details on the latest charges of attempted murder of Zwane.
