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Albinism killings trial delayed again Bongani Mthimunye
Comments Sangoma Thokozani Msibi, Brilliant Mkhize and Knowledge Mhlanga during their court appearance for albinism killing. Themba Thubane (third from left) is already serving his sentence. Photo by Bongani Mthimunye.
THE trial of three men accused of kidnapping and killing Gabisile Shabane and her nephew Nkosikhona Ngwenya was postponed to today.
Gabisile (13) and Nkosikhona (15) were killed in 2018. Gabisile had albinism while Nkhosikhona didn’t, but was mistaken to have it because of his light complexion.
The suspects appeared in the Middelburg High Court on Wednesday, where the case was postponed because the mastermind sangoma Thokozani Msibi (35) terminated his lawyer Werner Smit’s services.
Accused in case of murdered teen with albinism dies before trial Gabisile Shabane and her 15-month-old nephew were kidnapped and murdered in a muti-related killing in January 2018. Image: SAPS
One of the people implicated in the murder of Emalahleni (Witbank) teenager Gabisile Shabane and her cousin Nkosikhona Ngwenya has died before going on trial.
On what would have been the start of his trial with three co-accused, the high court sitting at the Middelburg magistrate’s court was told on Monday that Mfanisibili Muti Gamedze had died.
“There was a fourth accused who we were hoping and praying we could extradite from Swaziland. But his counsel has since indicated that he passed on. He is the fourth accused in the matter,” said prosecutor Ntsika Mpolweni.