Update: Midrand domestic worker murder case postponed
The case of a domestic worker accused of playing a role in strangling her employer to death has been postponed in the Randburg Magistrates’ Court.
Deliwe Zwakala was accused of playing a role in Thohira Mitha’s death, as she had admitted to the police one of the men was her boyfriend, Midrand Reporter reported.
Zwakala was the former domestic worker of Mitha’s, who had been strangled to death by three men at her house in December.
At her bail hearing yesterday, her legal counsel Aubrey Mashiane reportedly contested the prosecution’s claim that Zwakala had confessed her involvement to the police.
Mashiane said he had yet to see the docket.
It was ruled that the hearing be moved to January 20, and the prosecution team was ordered to allow Mashiane access to the documents by January 19.
In a separate incident, a 14-year-old boy from the Waterworks informal settlement, south of Johannesburg, was arrested for allegedly strangling his mother to death in August last year.
It was alleged the boy had confessed to his aunt after the woman was killed.
The aunt said the boy had arrived at her house around 10pm and told her the story. The aunt’s house was about 10km from the boy’s home.
The boy reportedly told his aunt: “I strangled my mother, and when I left she wasn’t breathing.”
– Caxton News Service
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