“I thought it is just because the man is related with some high police officials in the station and his mother is the well-known person in the area that is why he was let out from the police cells,” said one of the victims Nkosane Tfumbatsi. Schoemansdal Police Detective Captain Mogale Pilusa refuted the allegations that police did not perform their duty properly on prosecuting the man. Pilusa said Mkhabela was arrested and later released pending the investigation.

Mkhabela’s expected to make his second appearance before the Tonga Magistrate Court on August 23 facing a case of capable homicide. It is alleged that Mkhabela has no stranger on controversy. Mkhabela is working at Shongwe Hospital as clerk after his shortly resignation from being a paramedic. It is said that he was once charged with a case of capable homicide after the ambulance he was driving with overturned and injured some patients.

This incident happened at Mzinti road in last year during Mkhabela’s another elliptic attack. However, the Department of Roads and Transport spokesman David Nkambule said his department should not be blamed, as there is no any medical examination is being conducted when a person is applying for a driver’s license.

Nkambule said they are working together with the police and doctors to get the true reflection of the matter. “Everyone is allowed to have a driver’s license, but the bottom line is that people who are having physical and mental disability should not be given the driver’s licenses if they might disclose their status.

But we can’t diagnose a person without concrete evidence from the doctors, we are investigating the matter thoroughly depending on the results before we could withdrawn his driver’s license” said Nkambule.