Son tells of telephone threats in murder case

By Phindile Chauke

THE son of a Uitenhage schoolteacher charged with hiring a hit man to assassinate her husband has told the High Court that the alleged gunman’s wife had threatened him.

Vusi Khene, 20, a first year management student at Wits University, said Zukiswa Mkene, who is married to alleged hit man Sindile Gqagqa, had phoned him several times on his cellphone and at his home.

Gqagqa, 33, and Andile Sesman, 30, are accused of having plotted with school teacher Nomzekelo Mahlwempa, 43, to kill her husband, Vuyisile Khene, on March 20 last year.

Khene said that during one of the phone conversations with Mkene, she had asked him why he did not want to testify against his mother.

Mkene, 31, has turned State witness against the three accused.

“She asked why I was not co-operating. Did I not love my father? She told me she was going to make sure my mother goes down,” he said.

Khene also recalled how he ran outside after hearing the gunshots that killed his father in front of their home.

He could not remember how many gunshots he had heard. He said he had seen a man with dreadlocks wearing a black jacket, blue jeans and takkies, fleeing the scene.

Dr Edward Howse, of Dora Nginza Hospital, testified that Khene’s body had 12 bullet wounds.

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