QUARRY SAGA: KILLERS AFTER ME - BUSINESSMAN

MBABANE – “Someone wants me dead, why am I being hunted down?”

Businessman Mandla Mkhaliphi fears that there is a plot to assassinate him. This comes after his homestead was allegedly ‘visited’ by four unknown men last week. Mkhaliphi is the same man who hogged headlines recently following reports that his farm was guarded by soldiers. The soldiers were deployed at Portion 3, Farm 982, a private property owned by Mkhaliphi at Sicunusa, which had quarry that the businessman was mining prior to the deployment of the army. In an interview last Friday, the businessman said he had to report his fears at the Mankayane Police Station. He claimed that the four men, who were driving in a white Toyota double cab with a canopy, arrived at his homestead last Monday at around 3pm.

According to the businessman, he was not around at the time and the men were attended to by his sons. “My boys said the men only said they had been sent to fetch me,” he claimed.
He mentioned that the men did not state who exactly had sent them but used the term ‘bantfu labadzala’. Elaborating, Mkhaliphi said even if he was around, he would not have obliged as he would have no idea what the men would do to him along the way. “You cannot trust anything. What if they take you and along the way they kill you? The fact that they said they had come to fetch me is suspicious on its own because if there are authorities who want to engage me they can call and invite me. I would drive there myself and not be fetched by unknown men,” he said.

Car

The businessman alleged his sons informed him that they did not know the men but could identify them. “My sons described the car (they were driving in) but had a challenge with the number plate since it was not there. Instead it was fastened using wheel ties. They refused to alight from the car,” he alleged. He mentioned that he had done his own investigations and could tell that his life continued to be under threat, which was why he reported the matter to the police. It should be noted that this is not the first time for the businessman to report death threats to the police. In April this year, he reported that he had received death threats ever since the matter made its way into the public domain, in particular mainstream media.

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