NELSPRUIT – The court case against a man who allegedly crushed
his 34-year-old wife with a lorry to death at Ga Manoke village outside
Burgersfort a day before Valentine’s Day in 2012 had been finalised.
Mr Daniel Bhuti Mzimba (41) was sentenced to 25 years in prison by Judge Collin Lamont in the Pretoria Circuit of the High Court on February 06 for the murder of his ex wife Ms Edith Eddy Moyane and to seven years for assault with the intent of causing grevious bodily harm to his inlaws. The Judge Lamont said sentences of the murder and the assault charges were to run concurrently.
Mzimba intentionally drove over his wife with his company’s furniture lorry at Tubatse Primary School where she worked as a cook a day
before valentine’s day in 2012.
Mzimba drove past the school gates, damaging it in the process, and drove to where Moyane was.He allegedly pushed her with the front of the lorry against the wall, then reversed and drove into her again, knocking her against the wall which then collapsed.
Judge Lamont said the accused emotions and anger overtook him and that is why he ended up killing his wife.
“He knew his wife wouldnt want to see him that is why she left him at their home, after quarreling with his wife on the phone he drove armed to where she was, fought with her, when someone intervened he pretended to be leaving but then drove on to where his wife was,” siad Lamont.
