A WOMAN was convicted and sentenced at the Durban High Court yesterday, (Wednesday, 28 August) to two terms of life imprisonment on two counts of murder for killing two Clairwood boys back in 2017.
The accused, Amahle Bongiwe Maliwa (37) confessed to the crime and pleaded guilty to both charges of murder which were committed in 2017. The second accused, Liziwe Ngwayishe (32) is still standing trial before the judge today.
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According to provincial police spokesperson, Colonel Thembeka Mbele, in November 2017, the two best friends were reported as missing persons at the Brighton Beach police station. “Following an intensive investigation, it was discovered that the boys, Njabulo Mankayi (8) and Luyanda Msomi (10), were kidnapped by the accused from outside their school premises. The search for the accused and the boys continued with the help of the police search and Rescue Unit and K9 Unit. A few days later, their decomposed bodies were discovered in a canal within the Brighton Beach policing precinct and at a railway line in Clairwood,” she said.
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Mbhele explained that the two children were allegedly kidnapped by the two accused and taken to a house in Clairwood. “While at the house, they were allegedly forced to drink a poisonous substance and they were strangled. Their bodies were dumped at Brighton Beach and in Clairwood. The motive for the killing of the boys was as a result of a domestic related fall-out.”
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