The hearing into the South African government’s extradition request for self proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife will resume on Wednesday, 13 March in the Lilongwe Magistrate’s Court in Malawi.
On Tuesday, the Bushiri’s lawyer Wapona Kita continued cross examining the state witness Sibongile Mnzinyathi, the Director of Public Prosecutions in Gauteng on the charges that Mzansi wanted to extradite the Bushiris on.
He asked if they were covered in the country’s Extradition Act. According to their lawyer, out of the 13 charges against the Bushiris, only 3 fall under Section 5 of Malawi’s extradition act.
These are forgery, rape and stealing whereas the offences which the Bushiris are accused of in Mzansi but are not in the extradition schedule include money laundering, racketeering and others.
Kita argued that there is also no relevance per Section 5 of the Extradition Act of Malawi that the three offences consitute an offencecin both countries and therefore automatically fall off.
