Mother of man accused of killing Tshegofatso Pule exposes her boyfriend as case takes new twist
The man accused of killing Tshegofatso Pule, the pregnant 28-year-old who was found wounded and dangling from a tree in Roodepoort fourteen days back, was purportedly childhood companions with the dad of Pule’s unborn youngster.
This case about Muzikayise Malephane, 31, who sobbed in the dock during his first court appearance this week, comes as investigators keep attempting to interpret the last hours of Pule’s life.
On Thursday June 4, she revealed to her family she was going to meet Ntuthuko Shoba — the dad of the child she was expected to convey in July and the man she called her sweetheart — to purchase infant garments. Later she sent them an instant message saying she and Shoba had contended and she was getting back home.
CCTV cameras caught pictures of her leaving Shoba’s condo hinder in a dark Jeep on Thursday night. She was not seen again until her body was discovered the next Monday.
Her demise set moving a rush of fights and shock about sexual orientation based viciousness, with President Cyril Ramaphosa comparing it to a plague in the public eye.
This week, Malephane’s mom told the Sunday Times her child and Shoba had grown up close by each other. She talked on condition that she not be recognized by name, saying she would not like to imperil her great remaining in her congregation.
“Shoba and my child were old buddies when they were more youthful, they grew up together when we lived in Pimville,” she said.
“That kid says he doesn’t have a clue about my child, he denies it. Be that as it may, how might he do that when he and Muzikayise used to play together?”
On Monday her child was in cuffs, having been captured seven days after Pule’s body was found in the veld at Durban Deep gold mine in Roodepoort.
During his appearance on Wednesday in the Roodepoort judge’s court, Malephane, who his mom depicted as “delicate” and “mindful”, sobbed as he sat in the dock, talking just to affirm that he would not seek after a bail application.
The Sowetan detailed that Malephane had said something to police embroiling an individual near Pule as the shrouded deliver her killing.
The cost on her life, as per the report, was R70,000, and in another contort Malephane is affirmed to have uncovered this was the second endeavor on the magnificence specialist’s life.
The paper additionally uncovered his checkered history with the law, saying he had recently been accused of endeavored murder and ownership of a taken vehicle.
The endeavored murder accusation was pulled back, and Malephane’s mom told the Sunday Times he was indicted for “joyriding in a taken vehicle” and served 10 months in jail.
Notwithstanding his failings, she stated, her child was a “sweet and kind kid” who might help anybody out of luck. “He isn’t a forceful individual and he’s only practical.”
Inquired as to whether she accepted he was guiltless of Pule’s slaughtering, the lady, a businessman, dithered. “I can’t state my child is guiltless,” she answered. “Knowing his character I don’t figure he did it … however I don’t have a clue.”
She also recommended another person probably been included, somebody who had affected Malephane. “The individual who put my child in this circumstance is somebody [close to Pule]. The police must bring everybody capable to equity.”
Police representative Capt Kay Makhubele said the examination had not ended with the capture of Malephane, and criminologists didn’t preclude the likelihood that someone else or people were included.
Malephane’s mom said the lady her child lived with had said something to the police however had since remained in isolation.
In a meeting a week ago, Shoba’s dad, Mzwakhe, said that on the night Pule vanished his child told the family he didn’t have the foggiest idea about the individuals she had left with. “All he saw was the dark Jeep. It was expected it was a taxi, yet it doesn’t appear it.”
Endeavors to contact the Shoba family this week were fruitless.
Shoba and my child were old buddies when they were more youthful … That kid says he doesn’t have a clue about my child, he denies it. In any case, how might he do that when he and Muzikayise used to play together?
Muzi Malephane’s mom, alluding to Ntuthuko Shoba
– SundayTimes
