Overview
- A Bultfontein magistrate granted each of the nine accused R3,000 bail after Ipid said they cooperated and handed themselves in.
- The case was postponed to 26 May for the Free State DPP to decide which court will hear the trial.
- Ipid says a prosecutor-reviewed investigation found enough evidence to arrest the officers on four murder counts.
- The charges stem from a Public Order Policing response to a domestic dispute in Phahameng in September 2024 that ended in a tactical entry, gunfire, and four deaths including Constable Mojalefa Borole.
- Investigators recovered 43 spent cartridge cases at the scene, a detail Ipid cites as central to assessing the officers’ use of force.