Kgosi will face trial

Kgosi PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE
Kgosi PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE

"Do we tell the accused to leave the courtroom now so that the police can arrest him and bring him back? Do we tell the police to arrest him right inside the courtroom and if so, then what?"

These are Regional Magistrate Masilo Mathaka’s utterances as he took the court audience through an imaginary theatrics that might happen if he allowed the State’s wish to arrest former head of Directorate of Intelligence and Security (DIS), Isaac Kgosi.

On Tuesday Masilo ruled against State’s application to execute the warrant of arrest for Kgosi after the ex-spy chief allegedly breached his bail condition. Masilo was of the view that any attempt at enforcing the warrant was going to be viewed as a stunt - and a bad one at that.

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