Voice recording evidence is still outstanding in the case of Shakoor Roberts, who is accused of murdering his 61-year-old mother, Gafsa Roberts, and then hiding her body in a wheelie bin.
This week the matter was on the roll at the Mitchells Plain Regional Court for a final date after countless delays.
On Thursday, Roberts made another brief appearance, where he heard that the State was still waiting for two voice recordings which were to be used as evidence against him.
The matter was postponed to 30 January 2019.
Earlier this month, the State said the Directorate of Public Prosecution had been called in to review the case and the magistrate asked for a final date.
Roberts’s lawyer argued that her client had been in custody since last year and asked for the matter to be marked final.
Neighbours found Gafsa’s decomposed body inside her wheelie bin in front of her home in Winterhoek, Tafelsig, Mitchell’s Plain on 2 March 2015. She had been strangled to death and was identified by her hair.
Roberts lived alone with his sickly mother who suffered from liver disease, pancreatic cancer and diabetes.
He was arrested and charged the same day as her body was found, but the charges were provisionally withdrawn two days later due to a lack of evidence.
Roberts is a diagnosed schizophrenic and Gafsa’s family says she slept with a knife under her
pillow as she was scared of him.