63-YEAR-OLD ‘MAFITSIFITSI’ GETS SIX YEARS

MANZINI – “I just hope there are walking sticks in prison just in case I get a custodial sentence.”

These were the words of robbery and attempted murder convict, David ‘Mafitsifitsi’ Msibi (63), before he was sentenced to six years imprisonment by the court yesterday.

However, the court suspended half of the sentence. In his mitigation of sentence, he expressed hope that there were walking sticks in prison just in case he was given a custodial sentence.

Msibi committed robbery offences last year in collaboration with one Wonderboy Vilakati (37) of Mpolonjeni. He had pleaded not guilty to tying one Mduduzi Zubuko together with his wife, Sindisiwe Ellen Zubuko, with a fan cable and hacking them with a slasher before robbing them of their valuable items valued at about E80 000.

Mduduzi, who was severely hacked, said Msibi informed them that he had been sent to kill them on the night of the incident.
Zubuko, a former AD Enterprises employee, who was attacked while he was inside his house, told the court that he had locked all his doors when three men, including Msibi, entered his bedroom carrying bush knives and slashers. “Msibi said they had been sent by certain people to ‘finish’ me off and later steal money which had been kept in our bedroom.

They then took a blanket and covered us. After a while, they removed it and cut a fan cable, which they used to tie our hands, feet and bodies. While demanding money, they searched the whole house and would continuously hack me with the bush knife. The suspects, led by Msibi, then demanded my car keys and took all my valuable items, house appliances, clothing and loaded them into the vehicle,” Zubuko said.

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