Cde Wonder Mkhonza admitted to E15 000bail reports the swazi times

PUDEMO’s Wonder gets E15 000 bail
BY MBONGISENI NDZIMANDZE
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MBABANE – National Organising Secretary of
the proscribed People’s Democratic
Movement (PUDEMO) Wonder Rodgers
Mkhonta has been admitted to E15 000 bail.
The accused is expected to pay this amount in
cash.
Mkhonta was admitted to bail by High Court Judge
Qinisile Mabuza yesterday.
He has been in custody since April 10, 2013 after he
was arrested by Lavumisa police.  The PUDEMO
member was allegedly found in possession of
seditious documents.
Some of his bail conditions were that he should
surrender his passport to the investigating officer,
he should report at the Nhlangano police station
every Friday and that he should not interfere with
crown witnesses.
He was also warned that in the event he breached
the bail conditions his bail would be revoked.
The state was opposing Mkhonta’s application on
the basis that upon his release he might disturb
the upcoming elections.
His Lawyer Leo Gama, however, successfully argued
that Mkho-nta was not a flight risk and that there
was no way he could interfere with crown
witnesses in the event he was admitted to bail
Sergeant Sipho Sitsebe in his affidavit, stated  that
it would not be in the interest of justice to admit
Mkhonta to bail because of the seriousness of the
charge preferred against him and because of the
possible sentence if found guilty.
In his affidavit Mkhonta alleged that when he was
arrested, the motor vehicle in which the alleged
seditious documents were found in had not be
driven into the country, but was on neutral
territory between the Swazi and South Africa
border. Sergeant Sitsebe, however, disputed this
and instead he stated that the motor vehicle was
searched upon entering Swaziland at the border
post.