MPUMALANGA. – Mbongeni Walter Nkosi (36) and Mxolisi Sibusiso Mnisi (38) have been effectively sentenced to 25 and 23 years imprisonment respectively for the murder of Jannie Weideman during a farm attack on the Roodepoort farm outside Ermelo on 22 December 2023. The Mpumalanga High Court, sitting in Delmas, handed down the sentences on 22 October after the two pleaded guilty to charges of murder and robbery with aggravating circumstances.
Lt Col Jabu Ndubane, police spokesperson, says security officials informed police after the farm attack that they spotted a suspect running from the house during patrols. Police found Weideman in the dwelling with multiple gunshot and stab wounds. He was declared dead at the scene. A red Toyota Hilux, firearms, ammunition and jewellery were stolen. The bakkie was later found abandoned in Breyten.
Brig Donald Mdhluli, police spokesperson, initially said five suspects were arrested in January 2024. Police also recovered three firearms allegedly stolen during the attack, as well as a firearm reported stolen in Piet Retief.
Ndubane confirms Nkosi was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for murder and 10 years for robbery with aggravating circumstances. Five years of the robbery sentence will run concurrently with the murder sentence, bringing his effective sentence to 25 years. Mnisi was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for murder, of which two years out of five years was suspended on condition that he is not convicted of a violent crime during that period. He was also sentenced to eight years for robbery with aggravating circumstances, of which three years will run concurrently with the murder sentence. His effective sentence is 23 years imprisonment.
The case against Bongani Khoza has been postponed to 20 November 2028 for trial in the Mpumalanga High Court, which will sit in Breyten. A fourth man received discharge in terms of section 204 of the Criminal Procedure Act; his name has not been disclosed.
This article is an automatic English translation of a Nuusflits article originally published in Afrikaans. Read the Afrikaans original.
