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Dit volg nadat regter Gayaat da Silva-Salie luidens \u2019n berig op <i>Netwerk24<\/i> ges\u00ea het dit is in die belang van die Weskus-gemeenskap \u201cnoodsaaklik dat hulle toegang tot die verrigtinge moet h\u00ea\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/noordkaapbulletin.co.za\/hoofartikel-stilte-smee-skakels-van-bose-ketting-20240314\/\">Joshlin se ma<\/a>, Kelly, het Vrydag alleen in die beskuldigdebank in die Kaapse hooggeregshof verskyn weens \u2019n administratiewe fout wat daartoe gelei het dat haar mede-beskuldigdes, Steveno van Rhyn en Boeta Appolis, nie betyds na die hof gebring kon word nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die saak het sedert die soektog na klein <a href=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/weslander\/joshlin-one-year-later-20250219-2\/\">Joshlin op 19 Februarie <\/a>van stapel gestuur is, nasionale en selfs internasionale aandag geniet. Hoewel \u2019n saak van hierdie aard met die grootste deursigtigheid hanteer moet word en die publiek gewis die reg het om ingelig te wees oor wat die hofsaak oplewer, moet die vraag gestel word of di\u00e9 besluit nie die verhoor moontlik kan vertraag of belemmer nie, gegewe vorige verskynings in Vredenburg wat op tye hewige emosies en selfs geweld ontlok het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alle aanduidings is dat die verhoor na Saldanha sal skuif. \u2019n Geskikte perseel moet gevind word en dit sal waarskynlik as \u2019n hofsaal ingerig word. Dit beteken waarskynlik ook dubbeld die gewone veiligheidsmaatre\u00ebls en polisieteenwoordigheid om die veiligheid van almal teenwoordig te verseker \u2013 dit terwyl die polisie landwyd en gewis in die Weskus reeds onderbeman is. 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