Dumisani Mkhwanazi, accused of killing the UJ student, did not appear in court on Monday despite the fact that he is in custody.
The family of slain student Palesa Madiba has accused her alleged killer of “playing delaying tactics” by not pitching in court for the first day of his trial.
Palesa, who was a 19-year-old second-year student at the University of Johannesburg, died in August 2013 during the Women's Day long weekend after visiting her school friend, Tshidi Mkhwanazi, in Soweto. “The accused is not in court, my lord. We are not sure why he is not in court,” said a baffled state advocate Faghre Mohamed.
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