QHAWE, SABELO THANK GOD THEY WERE CLEARED

MBABANE – With yesterday’s headlines reading ‘E50m Fraud Convicts Get 24 Years in Jail’, Sabelo Mavuso and Qhawe Mamba can only sympathise and thank God they were cleared in the matter.

Judge Nkululeko Hlophe on Thursday sentenced Sebenzile Thango, Ethel Matsebula, Phindile Gwebu and their companies to a total of 56 years imprisonment.

They were convicted of fraud and bribery in December.
Thango and Gwebu, on the charges of bribery, were sentenced to six years imprisonment. Two years of the sentence were suspended for a period of three years on condition that they do not commit a similar offence.

On the count of defrauding government a sum of E880 400, Thango, Matsebula and Gwebu were also sentenced to six years in prison. The court suspended two years of the sentence for a period of three years, in which they are not expected to commit a similar offence. Speaking to this newspaper yesterday about the sentence handed down by the court, Mavuso said he could only thank God to have found himself out of this.

Though he said he hadn’t seen the newspapers by the time he was reached on his mobile phone, he was too shocked to learn of the sentence.
He recalled a scripture from the Holy Bible that never can someone who was innocent be made guilty of a crime.

“I cannot say much on the latest developments. I’m too shocked by the sentence and I just ask myself that had God not been with me, what would have become of me now,” wondered Mavuso, saying he knew this could have been him.

He didn’t wish to say the sentence was too harsh or not but he was, from the onset, just an employee at the time of Capacity Building exercise.
Mavuso said he had no company at the time and had no idea of how the operations went down.

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