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SIBUSISO SHONGWE ORDERED ME TO KILL PM, INSISTS SUSPECT

14/05/2018 00:48:00 BY JABULISA DLAMINI

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MANZINI – Shocking! This best describes a sensitive story narrated by a rape suspect, Mazwi Ginindza (32) of Lomahasha, who told the court that he was allegedly ordered by former minister of Justice Sibusiso Shongwe to kill Prime minister, Sibusiso Barnabas Dlamini.

Ginindza, who appeared before Principal Magistrate David Khumalo yesterday, said he was allegedly incarcerated together with Shongwe at Sidvwashini Correctional facility.
The rape suspect was arrested and charged with the rape of *Mary, which occurred on March 2016 at Mpolonjeni in the Hhohho region.

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Ginindza was charged with the rape offence, which he committed using a gun, a robbery offence where he robbed a woman of E18 000 cash and a housebreaking with intent to steal and theft offence.

The rape suspect alleged that after his incarceration, he was admitted to bail which was paid for by the former minister, who later housed him at his home while they allegedly orchestrated a plan to assassinate the prime minister.

“Sibusiso Shongwe paid bail for me and later kept me at his home. this is when I was arrested before these offences. He instructed me and two other men whom we fetched from Lomahasha border, to attack and kill the prime minister,” Ginindza alleged.

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“He ordered that we must kill the Pm together with another person referred to as Elijah Fakudze, who was attending church at Calvary Ministry, situated in Manzini. He threatened to kill my family members if I failed to heed to his orders,” Ginindza alleged in court.
Ginindza further alleged that the former minister told him that judges and magistrates were hired by him and he had control over them. Shongwe is alleged to have also told the suspect that he would order judges to detain him for the rest of his life.

“I later learnt that Shongwe was after me after I had escaped from his home and I then decided to buy the gun which is before court in order to scare him, in case he attacked me with an intention to kill me,” he further alleged.