Dr Nonkululeko Mantula, an SABC senior freelance journalist, has been singled out by the state as the alleged mastermind and recruiter in a case involving five suspects arrested for the alleged recruitment of South Africans to be involved in the Russian-Ukraine war.
According to Kempton Park magistrates court prosecutor Peter Erasmus, the four men she was arrested with are those she had recruited.
Four members of the group, including Mantula, were apprehended at OR Tambo International Airport on their way to Russia last week, while another suspect Thulani Mazibuko was arrested at his home in Springs. They have been charged with the alleged contravention of the Regulation of Foreign Military Assistance Act of 1998.
