Johannesburg - Eight policemen implicated in the killing of a Daveyton taxi driver are expected to apply for bail in the Benoni Magistrate's Court on Friday.
During their last appearance, the court granted them permission to be absent from the proceedings.
Lawyers for the accused said an identity parade needed to be conducted and therefore they could not risk the accused being seen by the public before then.
The parade was conducted on Thursday.
The court was meant to decide on whether the case was a schedule five or six offence.
The officers have been in custody in an undisclosed police station since they were arrested last week.
The court permitted for them to be kept at police station holding cells rather than a prison facility as their lawyers said it would pose a danger for them to be held with criminals they had helped to convict.
Two warrant officers and six constables have been charged with the murder of Mozambican national, Mido Macia.
He was allegedly tied to the back of a police van and dragged along a street in Daveyton on Tuesday. An eyewitness filmed the incident.
Macia was found dead in a police cell several hours later. A post mortem revealed he died of head and internal injuries. - Sapa