BREAKING | Madlanga bombshell: Bafana Sindane’s WhatsApp bid struck off court roll - IOL

Bafana Sindane has urgently approached court to block WhatsApp messages retrieved from his devices from being used at Madlanga.

A legal bid by taxi boss Bafana “King of the Sky” Sindane to stop the Madlanga Commission from reading his WhatsApp messages into the record has been struck from the roll.

This means he must appear before the commission.

Sindane challenged the admissibility of the messages, which were retrieved by the Mpumalanga Organised Crime Unit.

Sindane’s lawyers had sought a postponement until October after producing a medical certificate when he did not appear on Wednesday.

His lawyer, Thabani Masuku, argued that proceeding without Sindane could be unfair, citing the taxi boss’s spiritual seclusion as a private and culturally significant process.

Sindane is a close associate of Mpumalanga taxi boss Joe “Ferrari” Sibanyoni.

Both are co-accused in a criminal case involving allegations of R2 million in extortion and money laundering.