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Originally Posted by nomadking
How can he really claim self-defence when he shot through a closed door. Any possibility of imminent danger would only have come if the door suddenly opened. He had time to ask who was in there.
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Like the USA, South Africa has a big gun culture, it also has a high murder rate and death through burglary rate.. You don't ask if the suspected person behind a closed door is friendly and won't shoot you with the possible gun they have pressed against the door.. If he seriously thought that his partner was still in bed then in that circumstance most SA residents would shoot first.
Anyone here ever lived in Jo'burg or Pretoria will know the situation with home invasion and the need to protect your property over there which normally starts with electric fences and razor wire and stops with a weapon beside the bed.
[edit] Remember though that this is just the bail hearing and purely designed to find out if he is a continued danger to himself or others and whether he would abscond before the trial