Hip-hop star Molemo Maarohanye left town to receive counselling at an unknown location outside Gauteng after his release on R10000 bail on Friday.

The news that he had been granted bail was followed by an attack on his father's butchery and grocery shops in Protea Glen, Soweto.
But the family maintains the artist's decision to leave town has nothing to do with Friday's attack as his safety has been guaranteed.
The Ndikhokhele star is alleged to have been traumatised, both by the four deaths and by his imprisonment.
Maarohanye (29), who was incarcerated at Joburg's Sun City prison, had to be given a single cell after his life was threatened by other awaiting-trial prisoners.
He told the court during his three-day bail application hearing that he was intending to escape the limelight to have peace of mind.
"If he is given bail, my client will go far away from his residence but will continue to attend the case until it's finished.
"He will supply the court with details of his whereabouts," his lawyer Ike Motloung said during the bail application.
After his release on bail, an angry mob went to his father's shops in Protea Extension 11, where they vented their frustration by pelting it with stones and looting it.
Maarohanye's manager Jeff Marhanele confirms that the hip-hop star went away with his family to get counselling.
"He went through a lot and he wants to delete the memories of the accident by staying away from Joburg. He will also be receiving counselling because the accident left him an emotional wreck," says Marhanele.
The family spokesman Mokhosi Moleko blamed Friday's vandalism and looting on a criminal element.
"While we were in court a group of hungry hooligans took advantage of the situation to commit a crime," says Moleko.
He says they went to the shops, pelted them with stones, broke some windows and stole food and veggies.
"When the workers realised they were under attack, they closed the shop and the people took ready food and ran away," says Moleko.
Police spokesman Kay Makhubele says two people have been arrested in connection with the break-in and looting.
He says they will appear in court on Tuesday for public violence.
"The police are still investigating the case," says Makhubele.
Maarohanye's court appearance was marred by violence, which affected houses next to the Protea Magistrate's Court.
The police fingered learners as the perpetrators and Cosas provincial chairman Ntsako Mogobe rebuffed suggestions that his organisation had used children in the frontline in their violent protests at the Protea Magistrate's Court.
Cosas had vowed to protest every time Jub Jub and co-accused Themba Tshabalala appeared in court.
Mogobe says they don't use children as a front.
"The problem is that Cosas' members are children," he says.
"We don't recruit at primary schools. We don't even go there.
"Our members join from the age of about 14 to 15.
"We didn't encourage children under that age to join the protest."
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