Prophet Shepherd Bushiri with his wife, Mary, at the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court during their bail application before fleeing South Africa to their home country, Malawi, in November 2020. One of their co-accused, Willah Joseph Mudolo, has failed in his attempt to relax his bail conditions and travel to his home country, Zambia, to visit his gravely ill mother.
Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, Judge Piet van Niekerk has given his reasons for denying self-proclaimed Prophet Shepherd Bushiri’s fellow fraud co-accused, businessman Willah Joseph Mudolo, relaxation of his bail conditions for him to travel to Zambia.
Judge Van Niekerk dismissed Mudolo’s application to visit his gravely ill mother in Zambia. Among his bail conditions was that he could not travel outside of the borders of Gauteng.
Last month, the judge dismissed the application after hearing Mudolo’s legal representatives and in the absence of any representation on the State’s behalf.
Mudolo had wanted his bail conditions to be amended so that he was permitted to depart South Africa on or before April 30 until May 3 for purposes of attending to his mother, who is gravely ill in Zambia.
