The Alexandra Magistrates’ Court transferred a case of two women found guilty of murder to the South Gauteng High Court, Johannesburg for sentencing on 2 February.
The accused, Khuselwa Mvimbane (33) and Lucy Mweli (44) of City Deep were charged with kidnapping and pre-meditated murder of Lindiwe Masuku in November 2016. They were also charged with defeating the ends of justice by concealing the victim’s body and contravening the Firearms Act. The deceased was a girlfriend of Mweli’s former lover.
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The two who were also co-workers in Doornfontein kidnapped the victim from the boyfriend’s home in Tsutsumani and drove with her to City Deep were she was strangled, suffocated and stabbed to death. They then took the body to Rustenburg where it was burnt and buried in a yard said to be home to one of them, to conceal evidence. Investigators discovered the location and exhumed the body in May 2017.
Further evidence of their involvement was found in their employer’s vehicle used at the time by Mweli who was also charged with failure to report the loss of a licensed gun within a stipulated time.
