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S.Africa: Black Killers were just greedy

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Original Post Date: 2004-02-19  Posted By: Jan

From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 2/19/2004 1:47:51 PM
S.Africa: Black Killers were just greedy

Pretoria – Four Soweto men who had killed a Cape Town businesswoman, her cousin and two workers in Centurion three years ago had done so out of greed and without any provocation, a Pretoria High Court judge said on Thursday.

Judge George Webster made the remark during argument in mitigation of sentence on behalf of Thuso Tshukudu, 23, John Sibiya, 28, Jerry Khazi, 28, and Jutu Billy-Boy Radebe, 26.

The four were convicted in October last year on nine charges of murder, abduction and robbery with aggravating circumstances resulting from an incident in April 2001 when Agatha Tapela, her cousin Matenta Kalenga and brothers Paul and John Emanuel Jacobs were abducted, robbed, tied up, blindfolded and shot in the head from a close range near The Reeds in Centurion.

Tapela, whose husband Jenkins is a well-known Cape Town businessman, had traveled to Johannesburg to arrange for the sale and restoration of one of her and her husband’s houses. Tshukudu’s girlfriend had at that stage rented the house.

Tshukudu, Sibiya and Radebe were also found guilty of the illegal possession of firearms.

Tshukudu, Khazi and Radebe were convicted on two further charges of abduction and robbery after hijacking and abducting Mafika Khoza, who was forced to drink large amounts of brandy, stuffed into a car and pushed out of the moving vehicle near Diepkloof. His credit card was later found in Radebe’s possession.

Webster accepted confessions made by the accused as evidence against them, but all four on Thursday insisted that they were innocent and that the police had assaulted them and forced them to sign confessions.

Social worker Patricia Malinga testified that Tshukudu, who ran his own business as a party planner, came from a caring, stable background and his family could still not believe he could have been involved in such crimes.

Edited by Elmarie Jack

Source: News24.com
URL: http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/New…br>