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

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.

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