The Mpumalanga High Court sitting in Middelburg is expected to hand down the judgment in the case of murder against a Sangoma, Thokozani Msibi and others accused of killing 13-year-old Gabisile Shabane and her two-year-old cousin, Nkosikhona Ngwenya.
In a confession statement given shortly after his arrest in 2018, Mr X gave details of how Gabisile Shabane had begged him not to leave her with the two men who were part of the plot to kill her.