SUSPECTED robbers wielding knives and machetes descended on a house in Mpopoma, Bulawayo, where they stabbed a female occupant while demanding cash, before fatally striking a neighbour who intervened.
BY SILAS NKALA
This was heard by Bulawayo magistrate Franklin Mkhwananzi yesterday when Moses Ncube and Walter Moyo appeared before him charged with the murder of Siamubine Munkulu.
They were not asked to plead and they were remanded to December 4.
The court heard that on November 14 this year, the two met at a house in Mpopoma where they connived to rob a neighbouring house after they got information that Marian Kajewe (29), who was employed by a bus company, had $2 000 in her room.
They then engaged Mandlenkosi Thobekani Moyo (27) who is still at large.
The gang then went to the house on November 15 armed with machetes and knives.
They scaled the perimeter wall and broke into the house, upon realising there were intruders, Kajewe screamed and they stabbed her twice on the right shoulder and once in the abdomen. She gave them $60.
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Munkulu (39) heard his neighbour’s screams and rushed to her aid.
The suspects bumped into Munkulu as they made good their escape and struck him several times with a machete on the back of his neck.
Munkulu collapsed on the spot and was rushed to Mpilo Central Hospital, but he died on admission.
