Sentencing for schoolboy murderer on April 30

The sentencing of convicted murderer Peter Mphulo Magolego, the man who shot dead Sandtonview High School learner, Thando Khumalo, has been postponed to April 30 in the Alexandra Regional Court to allow the murderer to attend another matter in a different court.

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Magolego was due for sentencing today [April 23] but had to be moved to April 30, still at the Alexandra Regional Court.
This had followed a guilty plea rendered by Magolego when he appeared for trial on April 16.

Due to his guilty plea, the court convicted Magolego and ordered that he be kept in custody pending his sentencing which was supposed to be delivered on April 23.
This case has dragged on for three years as the South Gauteng High Court had to decide whether it could be heard in its jurisdiction or referred back to the Alexandra Regional Court for trial.
The late Thando was Sipho Masebe’s adopted son as instructed by Masebe’s late sister just before she passed on. Thando (20) was fatally shot at close range after a chase following a road rage incident on August 28, 2022. The Grade 11 learner was returning to his home in Tsutsumani Village in the early morning hours of the morning, from a night out with six of his friends, when he met his tragic death on the corner of 12th Avenue and Hofmeyr Street.

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Magolego, who is a well-known socialite in Alexandra, picked an argument with the boys after a nasty driving incident and then pulled a gun and chased the boys down after they abandoned their car and bolted.
Magolego, with a gun in hand, gave chase and caught up with Thando and shot him in the back of the head. The young man died on the spot while one of the other boys was badly injured in the leg….

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