# A murder-accused former ANC councillor will formally apply for bail when he returns to the Barberton Magistrate’s Court in Mpumalanga today. Members of the Hawks arrested Lifa Blessing Nkosi earlier this month in connection with the deaths of police official Nkosinathi Lucky Ngwenya of the Nelspruit Police Station and his friend, Jaftha Mnisi. Police discovered their bullet-riddled bodies at a tavern in Barberton earlier.