Andile Lungisa’s supporters gather outside prison waiting for his release after R10k bail granted
Bail was granted on Friday morning, but the former NMMM councillor will have to abide by a host of conditions if he hopes to avoid going back to prison pending his Constitutional Court application.
Former ANC councillor in Nelson Mandela Bay Andile Lungisa’s supporters have gathered outside the North End prison in Port Elizabeth waiting for his release after the Grahamstown High Court on Friday granted him R10 000 bail.
Andile Lungisa supporters have gathered outside the North End Prison in PE awaiting his release.This after he was granted R10 000 bail at the Grahamstown High Court. #sabcnews pic.twitter.com/1RouXmdNHv
— Lerato Fekisi (@LThipa) September 25, 2020
Lungisa had applied for bail pending the outcome of his Constitutional Court application for leave to appeal his two-year prison sentence.
Lungisa was found guilty of assaulting DA councillor Rano Kayser with a glass jug during a heated council meeting in 2016.
On Friday morning, he was granted R10,000 bail, with one of the conditions being that he should hand over his travel documents by 30 September.
His other bail conditions are that he must remain at the address that has been specified until his Constitutional Court application has been determined; that he must report in person at the Kabega Park Police Station Mondays and Fridays between 8 am and 6 pm; and that if his Constitutional Court application is refused, he must within 72 hours hand himself over to the relevant authorities.
Lungisa reported to the clerk at Port Elizabeth Magistrate’s Court on Thursday to start serving his two-year prison sentence.
Lungisa’s legal argument before the Constitutional Court will be that he hit Kayser with a glass jug in self-defence, while under attack by five men.
Meanwhile, the president of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA), President Mandisa Maya, the judges of the SCA concerned (Justices Nambitha Dambuza, Caroline Nichols, Shares Weiner and Nolwazi Mabanda-Boqwana) and Judge President of the Eastern Cape Division of the High Court Judge President Selby Mbenenge have all demanded a retraction from Lungisa, following allegations he made last week.
The SCA earlier this month dismissed Lungisa’s appeal against his assault conviction and sentence.
Speaking outside the North End Prison in Port Elizabeth, Lungisa alleged that his matter was not fairly decided due to political and familial affiliations of the judges who presided over his case.
(Compiled by Makhosandile Zulu)
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