Dikeledi Tears Mphela (24), Goit Sione Machidi (25) and McLaren Mushwana (30) are facing charges premeditated murder and robbery with aggravating circumstances. Picture: Screengrab. The three suspects accused of murdering an e‑hailing driver inside a car in Pretoria West have abandoned their bid for bail and will stay behind bars.
The trio appeared before the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court in connection with the murder of e-hailing driver and engineering student Isaac David Satlat on 11 February. Satlat was murdered after he picked up two of the three suspects in his e-hailing taxi. Hundreds of protestors gathered outside the court calling for justice and to support Satlat’s family, who have been left devastated by his murder.
The matter was postponed to the 23 of February 2026 for further investigations. Mphela was arrested on Fridayafter she handed herself over to the police, while Machidi and Mushwana were arrested on Sunday. In the graphic video of the incident, a woman sitting in the passenger seat can be seen attacking a man while he sits in the driver’s seat of a moving vehicle.
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A man sitting in the back joins the attack while the driver tries to regain control of the steering wheel. The two men appear to start struggling with each other before the man in the back hits the driver on the head with the gun numerous times.
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