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Waiting game starts for Shrien Dewani


British businessman Shrien Dewani will have to wait almost two weeks to hear whether his application to be discharged of killing his wife has been successful.

Western Cape High Court Deputy Judge President Jeanette Traverso said on Tuesday that she would deliver a ruling on the 8th of December unless she let the parties know otherwise.

She said she needs to take time to onsider the conclusions to which she will come.

Dewani's legal team brought the application last week in terms of section 174 of the Criminal Procedure Act, which opened up the way for a discharge if the court believed there was no credible evidence at the close of the State's case.

Dewani is on trial for allegedly plotting with taxi driver Zola Tongo and others to kill his wife Anni while they were on honeymoon on Cape Town in November 2010.

He has pleaded not guilty to charges including kidnapping, murder and defeating the ends of justice.