SOMA MAMBO YA SOUZ

Healer keeps 'evil creatures'

A public petition handed to the Pietermaritzburg magistrate's court yesterday alleges that tokoloshes (evil spirits) are being used to steal court dockets.

The petition alleged that murder accused Mduduzi Manqele, a wealthy traditional healer, was "well-known for keeping evil creatures that collect dockets from court. We fear, once released, his evil creatures will tamper with the investigations," the petition continued.
A crowd of of people, who had travelled about 45km to the court, protested loudly outside.
Manqele, 48, and co-accused Roger Thusi, 30, face charges of murdering Loyisa Jokweni, 18, whose head was found in a freezer in the home of Thusi's girlfriend in Pietermaritzburg.
A source in the community said Thusi led the police to Manqele after allegedly being told by him to behead Jokweni and put the head in a freezer "to get rich".
Magistrate Bessie du Toit granted Manqele bail after his counsel Martin Krog submitted that there was no evidence against him. Krog said the allegations against Manqele in the petition were baseless.
Du Toit refused Thusi's application for bail and adjourned the case to March 30.

Court told of 'rapists' plea to cop

Olebogeng Molatlhwa 

A CONFESSION by serial rape and murder accused Jack Mogale showed him to be a violent, sex-crazed man who is unable to control himself when around women. 

Testifying yesterday in the Johannesburg high court, former police director Piet Byleveld told Judge Frans Kgomo that at one point when he was taking Mogale's statement, the accused pleaded: "Director, I want you to help me because when I am with a woman I lose control and don't know what I am doing. I kill all of them if they don't give me what I want."
This startling revelation is contained in a confession read out by Byleveld.
Mogale made the confession at Brixton police station in Johannesburg on April 14 2009the court heard.
Byleveld was taking down Mogale's statement after he was rearrested after an attempted escape from the Brixton court.
Mogale passed himself off as another prisoner who was due to appear in court, hid in the toilets, but was rearrested.
The trial was postponed to tomorrow.

Female rapist gets life sentence

The Nongoma Regional Court handed a life sentence to a 25-year-old woman on Monday for raping a five-year-old boy she was hired to look after

Police Lieutenant-Colonel Thembeka Luthuli-Mbele said the woman was arrested in January last year immediately after it was discovered that the boy had been raped.

“The court heard that the boy cried all the time when his mother  washed him,” said Luthuli-Mbele.
“Bruises were discovered on his private parts and he told his mother what his nanny had done to him,” she said.    
The incident happened in Zondela area in Ulundi.