HOW COULD A TINY MAN DO THIS? - MUM

Pictures of Mpendulo when he was still younger.

NKONJANENI – Some residents of this area have an unanswered question of whether the victims were raped before they were killed or they were killed before they were raped.

The few people who spoke to the Swazi News said they were not convinced how Mpendulo Msibi, who is charged with the alleged rape and murder of nine people, could have done this because he was small-bodied.
They said they failed to imagine how he could have been able to overpower all these women because it has never been mentioned that he was armed.

They also considered the fact that most of the crimes were said to have been committed during the day when the victims’ cries for help could have attracted people’s attention.
These were two women who were found along the road next to his home and two men who were found at the bottom of the hill where his home is situated.

According to the police, these women were killed by strangulation between 2012 and 2014, the youngest being 12 years old and the eldest being 24 years old.

Specialist

Efforts to get medical opinion on this proved futile as two doctors from the Raleigh Fitkin Memorial and the Mbabane Government hospitals declined to comment while Dr Mills from the Mbabane Clinic said, “I am not a forensic medical specialist or have any experience with a case of this type.”
On another note, the family of suspect serial rapist and murderer want to know if he was caught in the act.

His mother Goodness Lukhele and his uncle Amos Lukhele said it was still hard for them to believe that their son was really involved in the charges he is facing.

Killing

Goodness wanted to know how her son was linked to this, and said that she could only believe if someone could tell her that they found her son raping or killing a person.
Showing pictures of when he was still a boy, she said she never thought that her son could do such and wishes that the court could tell her that he was innocent.
Goodness comforted herself by saying that her son had only been charged and was still innocent.

Msibi’s uncle said he never suspected his nephew could be involved in any criminal activity as he had never been on the wrong side of the law.

Greeted

“He was here last year and when he greeted me it appeared everything was fine. I am still at a loss for words because I thought I knew him as he grew up here,” he said.
Amos said Msibi told him that he was going to leave for South Africa shortly as he had found a job there.

... Mpendulo has over 30 siblings – grandparents

NKONJANENI – If the calculations made by his grandparents are accurate, Mpendulo Msibi has over 30 siblings fathered by Lawyer Khumbulani Professor Msibi.

Goodwill Msibi, a retired Correctional Services employee and Gogo Khumalo revealed this on Wednesday in an interview with the Swazi News.
They are the parents of the lawyer, who is also Mpendulo’s father.

He said he did not know Mpendulo because he had many grandchildren who were fathered by Professor.
Msibi said; “I can’t recognise a number of these children, let alone their mothers because they are just too many.”

He said the few that he knew were those he lived with for the one reason that their mothers had died.
His wife, Gogo Khumalo, said she neither had memories of Mpendulo’s nor those of his mother.

Claimed

“At the time when we lived at Zakhele I was younger and a lot of women brought children they claimed belonged to Professor. I can’t even recall their names or their mothers’ surnames,” she said.
Mpendulo’s mother Goodness Lukhele said at some point she took her son to her grandparents at Zakhele where she requested that they keep him because she could not afford to support him.
She said they were reluctant to do so because they had many other children they were looking after.

Msibi confirmed that he advised some mothers to raise their children on their own and offered to take with him those whose mothers had died.
Msibi said he did not even know where his son was and they do not communicate.
“I am not sure if I can recognise even my own son because he turned his back on us a long time ago,” he said.

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