Man guilty of sex worker killings

Siyabonga Sithole

Sifiso Mkhwanazi, the 21-year-old who confessed to the killings of six female sex workers from April to October 2022, has been found guilty on six counts of murder, six counts of rape, six counts of defeating ends of justice, one of possession of ammunition, one of illegal possession of a firearm and one of theft. Yesterday, Mkhwanazi appeared in the Johannesburg High Court sitting in Palm Ridge, where the case was postponed to May 8 for sentencing. Last month, Mkhwanazi, who had confessed to the murder charges, had denied he had planned these killings as part of a revenge plot against an earlier rape charge which saw him spend a brief stint in prison. In October 2022, news of six bodies found at his father Mark Khumalo’s Joburg workshop…

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Cape Times (Digital) - 1 Issue, 2024-03-14

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