Fatal White River shooting: 3 state witnesses added

The White River Magistrate’s Court heard today (March 13) that three new witnesses have provided statements in the case against Marco Schalekamp. Schalekamp faces a murder charge after a shooting incident in June 2025 wherePieter Burger was killednear the White River Rugby Club. Today, the court ruled against the state’s application to revoke his bail but did move to revise Schalekamp’s bail conditions,reportsLowvelder.

He wasreleased on R10 000 bailin September last year. The three new witnesses will now be included in the list of people Schalekamp is prohibited from contacting. His defence questioned the status of the newly introduced witnesses, arguing that they had not yet been formally confirmed and that one of them is a friend of Schalekamp.

The state countered that any person who provides a statement automatically becomes a state witness. The state’s application to revoke Schalekamp’s bail followed an alleged breach of his bail conditions. According to investigating officer Sergeant Mxolisi Keis, Schalekamp failed to inform authorities when he travelled to Fochville and stated that the town is located in North West province.

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Keis said this violated his bail conditions, which stated that he could only reside in Gauteng. Schalekamp’s advocate, Piet Pistorius, argued that the town is, in fact, in Gauteng, and there had thus been no violation. In the court’s judgment today, Magistrate Sifiso Mabilane denied the state’s application but ordered that Schalekamp’s bail conditions be revised for clarity. The charges against Schalekamp stem from a shooting incident that occurred in the early hours of June 5 last year, near the White River Rugby Club.

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