Court told of alleged police threat to kill him

questioning, called a woman named Mpho. He said the woman was asked to give a description of the man who sold her a computer.

“General Motsepe called Mpho and asked her to describe the ‘Nathi’ she had told them about. She said the Nathi she was referring to was light in complexion and hefty.”

Msimango told the court that he had never agreed to show police where the computers were as police alleged.

He said he handed himself to police on his attorney’s advice‚ who he said told him that the real perpetrators would go after him and kill him. “My attorney said if they kill me that will be the end of the case because the police will assume I am the person who committed the offence.

“I did not do this thing. I do not know anything about the computers. I was sleeping when the robbery took place‚” Msimango said.

Msimango had earlier told the court that he lived in a gated complex that was manned by a security guard. He said at night‚ security guards registered all cars that entered and left the complex. He said he was at his home the night before the incident happened and had only gone out to fetch his fiancee from her friend’s place.

“I never left the house until the next morning when I went to attend a funeral.”

Under cross-examination‚ Msimango told the court he was a taxi owner. He took over the business when his father died.

The court also heard that he owned four cars including a white A-Class MercedesBenz and three cellphones.

It was also revealed during cross-examination that Msimango had gone to see a priest when he found out he was being sought by police.

“I went to the priest to understand why I was being sought by the police and why my brothers were arrested‚” Msimango said when prosecutor Yusuf Baba asked him why he did not go directly to the police.

“The message the police left with the children broke me and I was worried because they tortured and interrogated my brothers‚” Msimango continued.

Msimango is said by the police to be the crucial man regarding the burglary at the Chief Justice’s office, when 15 computers were stolen two weeks ago.

The computers that were stolen contained “sensitive and confidential” information that had led to a judge’s house being broken into shortly after the burglary.

This is according to Captain David Moody‚ whose affidavit was read out in court during Msimango’s bail application.

Moody said the computers contained information on financial reports‚ salaries and the addresses of judges.

“Further investigations [show] that the accused had a telephonic conversation with witnesses regarding a sale of computers.

“One of the judges whose details are contained in the computers was robbed at his residential address.”

Moody said the safety of judges was compromised as a result of the burglary.

He asked the court to deny Msimango bail as he was likely to evade his trial.

“The accused knew the police