Times Of Swaziland: ‘NCAZA’: I DIDN’T KNOW VICTOR WAS POWERFUL THAN SIPHO

‘NCAZA’: I DIDN’T KNOW VICTOR WAS POWERFUL THAN SIPHO
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Mbongiseni Ndzimandze and Kwanele Dlamini on 17/02/2022 09:30:00


MBABANE – Mbuso ‘Ncaza’ Nkosi yesterday said if he knew Victor Gamedze was
more powerful than Sipho Shongwe, he would not have killed him.
Nkosi said instead he would have told Gamedze that he had been threatened and
forced to kill him when he went up to him at Ezulwini Galp Filling Station and
pulled the trigger on January 14, 2018. He said this during his
cross-examination by Advocate Laurence Hodes. This was after the advocate had
asked Nkosi if it was true that when he went to the filling station, leaving
‘Dzodzo’ in the red VW Polo next to the road, and Ngubane having gone to the
bush after complaining of stomach ache, he found no one in the car and waited.
Nkosi responded to the positive. Advocate Hodes said Nkosi was a calculated
cold-blooded killer.
Evidence
On Tuesday, Nkosi submitted that he deliberately left a trail of evidence so
that he would be caught and arrested. This, according to Nkosi, would have
afforded him a level ground to tell that he had been forced into killing
Gamedze. Advocate Hodes said since Nkosi had told the court that it was not his
intention to kill Gamedze and that he had been threatened to do it, he should
have told Gamedze that he was being forced to kill him, ‘so let us go to the
police’. “You were alone at the garage and your companions were not there.
You could have told him (Gamedze) that you had been hired to kill him,” said
the advocate.
Powerful
Nkosi said he did not know Gamedze. “If I knew he was powerful than Sipho, I
would have done that. But if I did that and Sipho found out, my family would
have been killed,” said Nkosi. Advocate Hodes further said: “Instead of
talking to him (Gamedze), you shot him twice. The video went viral. Ananias told
the court that he was next to the deceased and you came between them and before
you shot him you said ‘we are tired of you Gamedze’. Nkosi disputed that. He
said Khumalo (Ananias) was not telling the truth. Advocate Hodes said Nkosi’s
conduct did not demonstrate that he had been forced to commit the murder.