Six men arrested in connection with the shooting at the Cape Town Station deck last week appeared in court on Thursday where they heard their case has been postponed to next Wednesday.
Xolani Thafeni, Thobela Dingani, Meluxolo Pikini, Lwandiso Paul Diamond, Siyabulela Velile and Sinethemba Mngambi appeared in the Cape Town Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, where they heard that the State opposed their bail application.
But while the six will bring a formal bail application next week, their attorney, Sydney Tsotso, said that the arrest of accused two (Velile) was unfair and he must be released immediately.
“Imagine that someone who never went to prison is now in prison for accusations that he doesn’t even know, that his firearm was used to shoot in public, when the accused says that never happened,” Tsotso said.
The six suspects are facing charges of attempted murder after they were arrested following the shooting in which six people, including a woman in a wheelchair, were wounded on the deck last week Monday.
Of the six accused, only four (Thafeni, Dingani, Pikini and Diamond) appeared last week on Thursday, while the other two accused, Velile and Mngambi, who were arrested on the day of the shooting, appeared in court two days before the other four, and the court decided to add their dockets together.
It is believed the attack is related to a shooting later that day at the Nyanga taxi rank in which five people were killed and two were wounded.
Cape Argus