Johnathan Paoli
Sentencing of Bellarmine Mugabe and Tobias Matonhodze has been postponed to next Wednesday after the Alexandra Magistrates’ Court heard that shooting victim Sipho Mahlangu had received R250,000 and was due to receive a further R150,000 in cash.
Presiding in the Alexandra Magistrates’ Court on Friday, Magistrate Renier Boshoff said he needed additional time to prepare the sentence following testimony by investigating officer Lieutenant-Colonel Raj Ramchunder.
“I’m going to remand this case to Wednesday, I must just have a proper look at all the penalty provisions, and consider a sentencing. So on Wednesday we will finalise this matter,” Boshoff said.
The case stems from a 19 February shooting at Mugabe’s Hyde Park residence in Johannesburg, where Mahlangu, an employee at the property, was shot after an altercation.
On 17 April, Mugabe and Matonhodze entered guilty pleas in the same court.
Mugabe pleaded guilty to pointing a firearm and contravening
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