SECUNDA – Mr Bongezi Gladwin Mdeliswa, who is connected to the murder of Mr Louis van der Hoven (42) who died on Monday, 10 July in 2017, appeared in the Evander Regional Court on Tuesday, 29 October on a murder charge.
Mr Van der Hoven was stabbed on Friday, 7 July in 2017 and later died in hospital.
Mr Mdeliswa’s case was postponed to 23 March next year.
At the time of the crime, Mr Van der Hoven was allegedly on his way to attend an event and stopped next to the road between Secunda and Trichardt to give a few hitchhikers a lift.
He allegedly said they could ride on the back of his bakkie.
The hikers then allegedly began fighting and Mr Van der Hoven stopped the vehicle and asked them to get off.
One of the men allegedly began assaulting a woman and Mr Van der Hoven tried to intervene when he was stabbed with the knife in his eye.
Mr Van der Hoven was involved with building projects at Terra Nova in Trichardt.
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