A 49-year-old senior pastor in custody for allegedly raping a close relative will know his fate tomorrow when the Libode magistrate's court hands down a judgment on his bail application based on new facts.
In court on Thursday his attorney Hloniphipe Mkhongozeli argued that the state had failed to take his client to hospital for his chronic illnesses.
"It is in the interest of justice that he is admitted to (given)  bail so that he can take himself to doctors," he said.
He said there was no evidence that his client would not stand trial.
Meanwhile the state still opposed his bail.
State prosecutor Fezile Makunga said: "Even that the victim on 13 March was not in Gxulu when the first incident happened in 2015, there are still other dates that incidents also happened," said Makunga.
He asked the court to keep the accused in custody until his case was finalised.
He will be back in court on Friday when magistrate Nwabisa Jumba will deliver an answer on...