Mmamonnye ngobeni biography of michael

Media Statement from KwaZulu Natal Media Centre

Corporate Communication

South African Police Service

 7 October

found Mbongeni Michael Mlambo (33) guilty of murder and he was sentenced to 40 years imprisonment last week. The suspect was sought for murder by the Chatsworth SAPS and his identikit was circulated on 20 August He had left his residence and the police were unable to locate him for the past ten years until they received information of his whereabouts in Kokstad where he was arrested.

On 23 August , four victims went to Chatsworth Stadium to watch a soccer match. After the game, they proceeded to their vehicles at the Chatsworth Cricket Oval parking where they were approached by four armed men. The suspects held and stabbed the four victims before forcing them into one of the victim's vehicles. They then drove to a remote area on Natal Crescent, Shallcross where they threw them into the river. The suspects fled the scene with one of the victim's vehicle. One victim managed to get out from the river and went to a nearby residence for help and the police were alerted. Three other victims were confirmed dead at the scene. The other three accused are currently serving their sentences in Westville prison after they were found guilty by the Durban Magistrates' Court in and were sentenced to three life imprisonment each for three counts of murder and twenty-years each for attempted murder.

The KwaZulu-Natal Provincial commissioner, Lieutenant General Mmamonnye Ngobeni, is pleased with the sentence and she commended the investigators for working diligently on this matter and for successfully producing a lucrative thoroughly investigated docket to the court for the convictions and sentence of these perpetrators of crime, the KZN-SAPS is committed towards ensuring that all the cases reported are dealt with efficiently and perpetrators are prosecuted.  She also commended the members of the public for their cooperation and providing inform

A batch of highly sensitive documents obtained by amaBhungane, combined with other information, could explain why a flashy Durban businessperson named Thoshan Panday appears untouchable.

The documents suggest that attempts to investigate Panday prompted the departure of Hawks boss Anwa Dramat and the national director of public prosecutions (NDPP), Mxolisi Nxasana, as well as the suspension of Robert McBride, the head of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID), and Johan Booysen, the embattled commander of the Hawks in KwaZulu-Natal.

The evidence shows that police recordings of Panday’s conversations are at the centre of battles within and between the Hawks, the IPID and the police.

One crucial document supports claims by police sources that there is extreme sensitivity over Panday’s intercepted conversations with, and about, the Zuma family, including the president himself.

The saga began in August when Panday’s home, office and the Durban police headquarters were raided as part of a Hawks investigation of an alleged scheme to defraud the South African Police Service (SAPS) by inflating charges for police accommodation during the Fifa World Cup.

He was arrested in after a sting operation implicated him and an alleged co-conspirator, the SAPS procurement manager, Colonel Navin Madhoe, in efforts to bribe Booysen, allegedly in a bid to make the fraud investigation go away.

Speculation

In February , bribery charges were mysteriously withdrawn after Panday complained to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and the inspector general of intelligence about the alleged illegal interception of his communications. Advocate Moipone Noko, a protégé of the then acting NDPP, Nomgcobo Jiba, took the decision.

Since then, there has been speculation that their content, rather than their legality, was the real reason for the dropping of charges.

Now a senior official who has had access to the material has tol

KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lieutenant-General Mmamonnye Ngobeni has welcomed the heavy sentences handed down to two men convicted for the murder and rape of an elderly Austrian nun last month.

Sbongiseni Phungula&#; 24&#; and Mondli Shozi&#; 25&#; were each sentenced on Friday to two life terms and an additional 18 years&#; imprisonment by the Pietermaritzburg High Court for the murder and rape of year-old Sister Getrud Tiefenbacher.

The victim was found strangled to death with a typewriter cord in her room at the Sacred Heart convent in the Ixopo area on April

She was also suffocated with a towel after being raped by the two men&#; who also stole some of her possessions.

The culprits&#; who both had previous convictions&#; maintained that they had been drunk and had broken into the convent to steal food when they were disturbed by Tiefenbacher.

  Commenting on their conviction&#; General Ngobeni said the heavy sentences that had been handed down to the two men would send a clear message to criminals that they could face serving a long time in prison.