{"id":33958,"date":"2026-05-07T13:08:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=33958"},"modified":"2026-05-07T13:08:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:08:47","slug":"sa-court-dismisses-bid-to-remove-prosecutors-in-bushiri-linked-case","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-court-dismisses-bid-to-remove-prosecutors-in-bushiri-linked-case\/","title":{"rendered":"SA court dismisses bid to remove prosecutors in Bushiri-linked case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s (SA) High Court in Pretoria has dismissed an application by co-accused linked to Malawian self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri seeking the removal of two prosecutors handling the case.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The court ruled that granting the application could cause further delays in the long-running trial proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The matter had been scheduled to begin on Monday but was postponed to allow the court to consider the latest application brought by the accused.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The application aimed to overturn a High Court ruling issued last month that rejected the defence\u2019s earlier attempt to have the prosecutors recused from the case.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Willah Mudolo, a Zambian national, is among the key co-accused in the R102 million ($5.5 million) fraud, theft and money laundering case linked to Bushiri.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13699,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-33958","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"SA High Court in Pretoria has dismissed an application by co-accused linked to Malawian self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri","published_date":"2026-05-07 13:07:46","news_description":"SA High Court in Pretoria has dismissed an application by co-accused linked to Malawian self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33959,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33958\/revisions\/33959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=33958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}