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Tombstone-maker ghosts clients, disappears with their money (opens the original)
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Families who saved for months to honour their loved ones have been left high and dry after a Mpumalanga tombstone company allegedly shut down without delivering the monuments they had paid for. More than 40 families paid R300,000 to Lowveld Tombstones only to be let down, and are now chasing the company that seems to have vanished into thin air. The victims said the company’s branches in the Mbombela CBD, White River, Malelane, Lydenburg, Bushbuckridge and Hazyview have closed. At the company’s
I lured mom to killers and watched her being murdered, daughter tells court (opens the original)
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An Mpumalanga woman has told the Mbombela high court how she lured her mother to a group of murderers, and then stood guard at the door watching as they pinned her down and killed her for an R80,000 funeral policy payout. Nonhlanhla Mthunywa also told the court that her mother, Wanter Dlamini, 62, had survived poisoning and a shooting plan until she was finally strangled to death. Mthunywa is a state witness who was also charged with her mother’s murder, but entered a plea agreement with the sta
I lured mom to killers and watched her being murdered - court hears (opens the original)
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An Mpumalanga woman has told the Mbombela high court how she lured her mother to a group of murderers, and then stood guard at the door watching as they pinned her down and killed her for an R80,000 funeral policy payout. Nonhlanhla Mthunywa also told the court that her mother, Wanter Dlamini, 62, had survived poisoning and a shooting plan until she was finally strangled to death. Mthunywa is a state witness who was also charged with her mother’s murder, but entered a plea agreement with the sta
Mom ‘killed for funeral cover survived poisoning the day before’ (opens the original)
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An Mpumalanga woman who was allegedly raped and killed at the behest of her daughters, who wanted to cash in on her funeral policy, had survived being poisoned the day before, a court heard. On Wednesday the Mbombela high court heard someone had put insect poison in Wanter Dlamini’s beer. However, she noticed something was not right and did not drink it. Police found the beer in her fridge on the day her body was found on a railway track in Barberton. Dlamini’s daughter Bathabile Mthunywa, 39, t
Court hears sisters plotted to kill mom for R80k policy (opens the original)
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The child of an Mpumalanga woman allegedly killed by her daughters so they could cash in a funeral policy has testified in court that she begged her mother not to go to the place where she was raped and strangled. After her murder, her body was transported to a railway track so a train could run over it. Bessie van Der Merwe was testifying at the Mbombela high court on Tuesday where her sister Bathabile Mthunywa, 39, their neighbour Nombuso Ndwandwa, 41, and Steen Mashakeng, 36, are on trial for
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