He argued that Mafe is not a threat to society and will not commit any offences if he is granted bail.“We are dealing with a human being who is presumed to be innocent. The day we don’t take into account that a human being has been sitting for five months in jail and a large part of that is due to the inefficiencies of the police, the prosecutor and magistrate ... If we could subtract those things, he would be free.
Shortly after his arrest, Mafe was referred to a psychiatric hospital by the Cape Town magistrate's court for 30 days of observation, based on a report compiled by a district surgeon after he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.Mpofu argued that Mafe was denied the opportunity to get a second opinion on the diagnosis, securing an order from jdeclaring the referral to be unlawful. Hlophe ordered that he be placed in a normal correctional facility and taken out of Valkenberg.
“They took Mafe to Valkenberg wrongly, the misdiagnosis, the hiding of information, the so-called confession which is still a mystery, the denial of rights — these are the factors that should allow Mafe to receive bail,” said Mpofu.Questioned by the court on Mafe’s comment during his testimony in the magistrate's court in February that he just wanted to go home and watch DStv, Mpofu said Mafe was misunderstood.
“The gist of this is that Mafe is not just someone who wants to sit and watch DStv. He is actually saying, ‘I can’t do what I used to do, like begging for money and carrying groceries, due to this case.’ But he might wash cars in his area, for example.”
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