Former soccer star in court for bail

556 20/04/2015 A former Bafana Bafana player from the left Lebogang Morule , Orbert Sithangu and Sizabantu Mngadi appear for a bail application which will continue next week Tuesday. They have been charged for being in possession of a cellphone jamming devices and police uniform. Picture:Nokuthula Mbatha

556 20/04/2015 A former Bafana Bafana player from the left Lebogang Morule , Orbert Sithangu and Sizabantu Mngadi appear for a bail application which will continue next week Tuesday. They have been charged for being in possession of a cellphone jamming devices and police uniform. Picture:Nokuthula Mbatha

Published Apr 21, 2015

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Johannesburg - Former Bafana Bafana star Lebogang Morula has shown that he regards the courts with contempt because whenever he is released on bail, he goes on to commit more crimes.

This was the view of Constable Derrick Masondo, who was testifying on Monday in the Boksburg Magistrate’s Court in the bail application of the disgraced former soccer star and co-accused Obed Sithagu and Sizabantu Mngadi.

He asked that bail be denied in the latest incident in which the three men are accused of being in possession of a signal-jamming device that is sometimes used in hijackings.

Morula, who was in the team that represented South Africa during the 1998 World Cup in France, was arrested with nine others two weeks ago while allegedly en route to rob a cigarette truck.

Charges were later withdrawn, but Morula, Sithagu and Mngadi were charged with contravening the Communications and Transactions Act for being in possession of the jamming device. Sithagu was also charged with impersonating a police officer for allegedly wearing a uniform.

Morula was convicted of malicious damage to property in 1986 and theft in 2004. He is also out on R1 000 bail for attempted murder in Brits, North West. Two months ago, he and five others were charged with robbery with aggravated circumstances for allegedly trying to rob an SBV van in Ogies, Mpumalanga.

They had a signal jammer in their possession. Morula was released on R15 000 bail.

Masondo said on Monday that the courts had given Morula lots of chances, which he had squandered, and therefore he shouldn’t get bail now.

In an affidavit that his lawyer read in court, Morula admitted he had the device in his possession but said he did not know it was against the law.

He, Sithagu and Mngadi intend to plead not guilty.

The case was postponed to next Tuesday.

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