KILLED MVA MANAGER DUMPED IN WALTER BENNETT’S FARM

SIGOMBENI – The place where the three suspected killers chose to dump the body of SMVAF Auditor Sifiso Ndaba has been identified as a farm belonging to Walter Bennett.

The renowned, outspoken Mbabane businessman and former Senator’s farm located in the rural area of Sigombeni was used by the suspects as the place where they hid the body of Ndaba after he had been brutally murdered. Coincidentally, Bennett is former chairman of the Sincephetelo Motor Vehicle Accident Fund but this has nothing to do with the death of Ndaba and neither is the businessman associated in any way with the crime.

The three suspects, identified as 22-year old Nyiko Cossa, 20-year old Benjamin Maziya and a minor aged 17, have confessed to the murder.
Bennett confirmed being the owner of a farm at Sigombeni but said he was unaware that it was where Ndaba’s body was dumped by the suspects.
“I had only heard that he was dumped at Ludzeludze and nothing else,” he said. He said the police had not even contacted him concerning the body being hidden in his farm.

CONDUCT OF CRIMINALS

Asked if he had anything to say regarding the latest information, Bennett said: “I have no comment. How can I regulate the conduct of criminals?” The Times SUNDAY got to learn about Bennett’s ownership of the farm through residents of the area during an investigation.
Sixty-four-year old Linah Madzinane, whose homestead is the closest to the place where Ndaba’s body was dumped, said he was asleep at around 1am on Saturday when he heard the sound of a car near the entrance to her home.
“I then heard the banging of the vehicles doors as they were being closed. I wondered what the car was doing near my place at that time of the night. However, I did not come out to take a look because I was afraid,” she said.

The elderly woman said the vehicle was already leaving when she heard its sound. She said she would assume that the suspects were careful not to make any noise when they went to dump the body because the realised there was a homestead nearby.

“In the morning, I went to the gate and I saw the tyre marks that were clearly visible on the grounds and I wondered what the vehicle was doing here. But there was no one I could ask. At around 11am, a contingent of government motor vehicles arrived and the people who were driving in them told me that they were looking for someone’s body. They told me to accompany them,” she said.

He immediate neighbour, 50-year old Zanele Dlamini, said she did not hear anything on the night and only became aware of what had happened when the police officers arrived in numbers in the morning.
The two women related how they were shocked to their wits when the suspects, who were with the police, led them to the deceased’s body.

“His face had been burnt, but not entirely. He lay on the ground with his legs bent and we assume that this was the same posture he was bundled into the boot of the car. His mouth was gagged with a seal tape,” said Madzinane. A closer look at the scene where the body was dumped showed that the thicket had been partially burnt, presumably when the suspects tried to burn Ndaba’s body, but only his face was affected.

There was also a burnt piece of cloth where Ndaba’s body is said to have lay and the women suspected that it was part of the material that was used to try and set his body on flames.
“When I looked at the three young men who are said to have killed this man, I felt so afraid mainly because I had heard the car’s sound. I shuddered to think what they could have done to me had I come out of the house to see what was happening,” she said.

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