The man who killed sex worker Zodwa Angelina Sibiya (39), from Emthonjheni in Emgwenya in Mpumalanga, for making too much noise in his house has been sentenced to an effective 20 years in prison.

According to an article published by Lowvelder, the Mpumalanga Division of the High Court sitting in Breyten near Ermelo on Thursday sentenced Jacques Jacobus Alwyn Botha (33) to 18 years for murder and seven years for defeating the ends of justice.

The court ordered that five years on his sentence for obstruction run concurrently with his sentence for murder. Botha was also declared unfit to possess a firearm.

Botha picked Sibiya up from a street in Belfast at around 19:30 on October 18 last year. He took her to his house on the Vogelspruitspoort Farm near the town.

“They were drinking and had sex. Afterwards, they went into the living room and continued drinking. Sibiya is said to have been intoxicated and she started making a ruckus. This irritated Botha who tried to quiet her several times unsuccessfully,” says a provincial police spokesperson, Lieutenant Colonel Jabu Ndubane.

“Botha is said to have dragged Sibiya to the bedroom. He continued trying to silence her as she was yelling uncontrollably. He also tried to get her to sleep, but Sibiya just continued kept yelling.”

It was then that Botha strangled Sibiya with his hands and her underwear, until she passed out.

Upon realising Sibiya was dead, Botha wrapped her body in a carpet and dumped her inside a hole not far from his house. He then filled it with stones to further conceal the body.

“Botha was later consumed by guilt. He handed himself over to the Belfast police and relayed the story of what he did,” says Ndubane.

Sibiya’s body was subsequently retrieved from a hole where Botha buried her. He was charged accordingly.

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