{"id":4294,"date":"2017-10-09T10:24:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T08:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/?p=4294"},"modified":"2017-10-09T10:24:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T08:24:13","slug":"actor-dumi-masilela-knew-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/actor-dumi-masilela-knew-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"REVEALED: Actor Dumi Masilela &#8216;knew his killer&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4295 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dumi-Masilela-killers.jpg\" alt=\"Dumi Masilela killers\" width=\"450\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dumi-Masilela-killers.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dumi-Masilela-killers-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>This startling information was contained in the written confession of Sifundo Nkosi\u201a who was applying for bail in the Benoni Magistrate\u2019s Court last week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThey knew the vehicle and knew Masilela\u201a\u201d Magistrate Elmari Schutte said as she paraphrased parts of the confession before her.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/photos-dumi-masilela-simphiwe-ngema-best-moments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dumi Masilela and Simphiwe Ngema\u2019s best moments [Photos]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nkosi had told police they \u201cusually don\u2019t hijack vehicles of people they knew\u201d but on that day\u201a it was different.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI drove until I was parallel to Dumisani\u2019s car. Solly shouted and told me to stop and I stopped\u201a\u201d Nkosi\u2019s confession reads.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Masilela and a friend were seated in his Golf 7 vehicle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two of the six men were meant to have gone for Masilela\u2019s vehicle but only Khumbudzo Solomon Mukhuba\u201a known as Solly\u201a got out. The door that was meant to have been used by the other gunman was secured with child lock.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nkosi said Mukhuba approached the car and fired shots directly at Masilela\u2019s car and then ran back to the Jeep.<\/p><div class=\"a17b8461aa8852e9804489a09abe77ee\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6320557125022566\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Responsive Ad -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6320557125022566\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1510235538\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/dumi-masilelas-last-words-to-younger-brother\/\">Dumi Masilela\u2019s last Touching words to his younger brother<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A wounded Masilela had sped off in his vehicle. He later died at the Tembisa Hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Jeep that the attackers were travelling in had been hijacked in Daveyton a short while earlier.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the time of Masilela\u2019s shooting\u201a the Jeep owner\u201a Trevor Shabangu\u201a had lay bundled in the back seat of the vehicle and had heard the gunshot ringing. He was later released.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nkosi\u201a however\u201a made a u-turn on his confession\u201a alleging the police had beaten it out of him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said he was not present when the Jeep was hijacked in Daveyton but he was later picked up by the hijackers in a tavern in Tembisa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Delivering her verdict on his bail application\u201a Schutte seemingly did not believe Nkosi\u2019s new version. She denied him bail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mukhuba and Bongani Masombuka\u201a the alleged mastermind of the hijacking plot\u201a had not applied for bail. All three will return to court on October 25.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/sindi-dlathu-quits-muvhango-20-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sindi Dlathu quits &#8216;Muvhango&#8217; after 20 years<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Police are still searching for the other suspects.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This startling information was contained in the written confession of Sifundo Nkosi\u201a who was applying for bail in the Benoni&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Dumi-Masilela-killers.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mzansimirror.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}