Overview
- The Polokwane Magistrate’s Court refused bail for Lehlogonolo “Shebeshxt” Chauke after finding his latest application offered no new facts.
- Magistrate Godfrey Netshiozwi said Section 60 of the Criminal Procedure Act requires real new circumstances to justify release.
- He described the defense’s material as an embroidery of issues the court had already heard and kept Chauke in custody pending trial.
- The court questioned his claimed medical issues because correctional records showed no complaints and noted an allegation of banned substances found in his cell.
- Prosecutors opposed the bid as a rehash of old points, and Chauke, arrested after an October 2025 shooting in Polokwane, faces nine charges including three attempted murders and an unlicensed firearm.