Johannesburg – The case against 21-year-old college student Bafana Mahungela accused of the murder of 34-year-old schoolteacher Kirsten Anne Kluyts has been moved to the high court.
On Thursday the matter was transferred from the Alexandra Magistrate’s Court to the high court in Johannesburg for a pre-trial conference that will take place next month, on 16 August 2024.
Mahungela is charged with kidnapping, robbery with aggravating circumstances, murder, attempted rape, and defeating the ends of justice.
The case relates to the discovery of 34-year-old Kirsten Anne Kluyts’ lifeless body at the George Lea recreational park in Parkmore on 29 October 2023.
Kluyts was a teacher at Delta Park High School.
On that fateful day, she participated in an athletic event, and other athletes realised she was missing when the race was finished.
They started searching for her and found her body dumped next to a walking path.
Mahungela was arrested at the Varsity College student residence in Benmore on 26 November 2023, following video footage obtained from the closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras in the vicinity of Parkmore.
However, before the high court pre-conference, Mahungela will return to the Alexandra Magistrates’ Court on 1 August 2024, where he will again attempt to be released on bail.
The accused has presented “new facts”.
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