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Mandla Khoza

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Aug 24, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 24, 2026 · Mandla Khoza

    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

  2. Article · Aug 20, 2026 · Mandla Khoza

    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

  3. Article · Aug 19, 2026 · Mandla Khoza

    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

  4. Article · Aug 6, 2026 · Mandla Khoza

    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

  5. Article · Aug 6, 2026 · Mandla Khoza

    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

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