The discovery of skeletal remains as opposed to a decomposed body was the focus on Thursday in the trial of a group accused of the murder of a Tongaat teenager.
The sister of a Tongaat teenager who was murdered, allegedly after stealing liquor from a local tavern, has told of the day a neighbour ran to tell them her brother was being beaten up in a locked room.
No comfort for family mourning sonâs murder after alleged mastermind assassinated
By Lethu Nxumalo
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Durban - The assassination of the alleged mastermind in the murder of Andile âBoboâ Mbuthu has brought no comfort to his grieving family but opened old wounds as they remember his death a year on.
The community of Tongaat who witnessed the killing unfold celebrated by ululating and breaking into song when the identification of the deceased was made public.
Murder accused, Mlungisi Thabethe, 28, was killed on Thursday morning while driving towards the Hambanathi township near Tongaat. He was shot several times.
According to witnesses, occupants of a white Toyota Quest opened fire on his vehicle and it came to a stop behind the Shree Veeraboga Emperumal Temple. He was found slumped over the passenger seat with multiple gunshot wounds.
WATCH: Ululation as man accused of killing teenager for alleged alcohol theft shot dead in Tongaat
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Johannesburg – There was ululation and joy at the murder scene of a 26-year-old man who was gunned down by unknown suspects in Tongaat on Thursday morning.
The deceased, Mlungisi Thabethe, was gunned down in his VW Polo while trying to evade gunmen on Thursday.
Thabethe was one of the seven men accused of the brutal murder of Andile Bobo Mbuthu, a teenage boy who was beaten to death for allegedly stealing alcohol during the lockdown in Tongaat last year.
Thabethe was the owner of the Magagula’s Lounge from which Mbuthu had allegedly stolen alcohol. The teenager had been last seen alive at the shisanyama after a video surfaced showing him badly bruised and lying in a pool of blood.