Taxi driver Njabulo Nyawose in the Port Shepstone Magistrate Court in connection with the death of champion cyclist Burry Stander. Photo: Zanele Zulu / Independent Newspapers
The culpable homicide charges against a taxi driver involved in the death of cyclist Burry Stander are to be reinstated.
Earlier this month charges against Njabulo Nyawose were withdrawn. This was after the Port Shepstone Magistrate’s Court refused to grant the State another adjournment to wait for a decision from the director of public prosecutions on whether to prosecute.
Nyawose was driving a taxi and Stander was cycling when the two collided in January.
Stander, 25, was killed in the crash. Nyawose was arrested and charged with culpable homicide with an alternative charge of reckless and negligent driving.
The Stander family were outraged by the State’s handling of the matter and demanded an apology.
National Prosecuting Authority spokeswoman Natasha Ramkisson said on Monday that the charges would be reinstated.
She said Ray Sansom, then chief prosecutor for southern KwaZulu-Natal, had received a directive from the office of the director of public prosecutions to prosecute Nyawose.
Culpable homicide would remain the main charge, she said, but the State was considering several alternative charges. – The Mercury
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