A KwaZulu-Natal man was given three life sentences on Friday 27 July for killing a Mooi River farmer’s wife, a helper, and a gardener.<\/p>\n
The Pietermaritzburg High Court earlier convicted Mzwandile Magubane, 21, a gang member who started a fire in July 2010 to draw people from a farmhouse.<\/p>\n
Acting Judge Muzi Thom Ncube said Magubane’s conduct was so aggravating that it overrode any mitigating factors, such as his relative youth and that he was a first time offender.<\/p>\n
“You deprived three defenceless people of their right to life,” Ncube said.<\/p>\n
Attacks on innocent people, particularly in the farming community, would not be tolerated, he said.<\/p>\n
Magubane was found guilty of murdering Lorraine Karg, Hilda Linyane and Shayi Mhlongo.<\/p>\n
They were murdered while Karg’s husband Neville and his staff were dousing the fire.<\/p>\n
The gang cut Karg and Mhlongo’s throats. Linyane was shot. – SAPA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A KwaZulu-Natal man was given three life sentences on Friday 27 July for killing a Mooi River farmer’s wife, a helper, and a gardener. The Pietermaritzburg High Court earlier convicted Mzwandile Magubane, 21, a gang member who started a fire in July 2010 to draw people from a farmhouse. Acting Judge Muzi Thom Ncube said … Continue reading “Life sentences for black farm murderer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[34,531,208,633,634,12250],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-crime","tag-farm-attacks","tag-farm-murders","tag-lorraine-karg","tag-mzwandile-magubane","tag-south-africa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}