30-year-old Mandisi Gwanya, the man dubbed the "Port St Johns cannibal", will have to spend another two weeks behind bars after his case was postponed.
Wearing a red poloneck and jeans, and unlike his previous court appearances when even his hair appeared unkempt, Gwanya looked very neat as he made his way into the dock.
But Magistrate John Govender told him that he was postponing the case to December 12.
"The state has to get advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions," he told Gwanya who immediately left the courtroom while the court interpreter was trying to explain to him in Xhosa.
Govender had agreed that the suspect be sent for mental observation in Grahamstown's Fort England Hospital around July.
A medical report from the hospital reportedly ruled that he was mentally unstable with the docket later sent to the DPP for a decision.
This means he will only know on December 12 whether he has been deemed fit to stand trial.
Gwanya has been behind bars since his arrest in April for allegedly slaughtering, dismembering and eating some of the flesh of his four-year-old Kamvelihle Ngala in KwaNtsila village.
The incident left the whole Eastern Cape shocked.
Murder accused 'cannibal' case postponed
30-year-old Mandisi Gwanya, the man dubbed the "Port St Johns cannibal", will have to spend another two weeks behind bars after his case was postponed.
Wearing a red poloneck and jeans, and unlike his previous court appearances when even his hair appeared unkempt, Gwanya looked very neat as he made his way into the dock.
But Magistrate John Govender told him that he was postponing the case to December 12.
"The state has to get advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions," he told Gwanya who immediately left the courtroom while the court interpreter was trying to explain to him in Xhosa.
Govender had agreed that the suspect be sent for mental observation in Grahamstown's Fort England Hospital around July.
A medical report from the hospital reportedly ruled that he was mentally unstable with the docket later sent to the DPP for a decision.
This means he will only know on December 12 whether he has been deemed fit to stand trial.
Gwanya has been behind bars since his arrest in April for allegedly slaughtering, dismembering and eating some of the flesh of his four-year-old Kamvelihle Ngala in KwaNtsila village.
The incident left the whole Eastern Cape shocked.
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