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.
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.
Andile âBoboâ Mbuthu murder-accused shot dead in Tongaat
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Johannesburg - One of the seven men accused of the brutal murder of Andile âBoboâ Mbuthu, who was beaten to death for allegedly stealing alcohol during the lockdown in Tongaat last year, has been shot dead on Thursday morning.
Mlungisi Thabethe, 26, who was the owner of the Magagulaâs Lounge from which Mbuthu had allegedly stolen alcohol, was one of the seven murder accused in the murder case.
Thabethe was shot dead this morning while driving in his VW Polo.
Thabethe, who also ran his familyâs taxi business, was released on bail after he approached the Durban High Court in September last year. The Verulam Magistrateâs Court had denied him bail after he allegedly intimidated witnesses in the Mbuthu murder case.