Loyiso Nkohla-Mabandla murder: accused sentenced to 30 years
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on SABC News
Zukisa Tshabile, 41, has been sentenced to an effective 30 years in prison by the Cape High Court after pleading guilty to 15 counts. Community activist Loyiso Nkohla-Mabandla was shot dead in Philippi in April 2023 while mediating the relocation of people living on PRASA’s tracks, according to South African media. Two other accused are due to appear separately.
A first accused in the murder of community activist Loyiso Nkohla-Mabandla has been sentenced to 30 years in prison by the Cape High Court, according to SABC News. Zukisa Tshabile, 41, entered a plea and sentence agreement with the prosecution and pleaded guilty to 15 counts.
Loyiso Nkohla-Mabandla campaigned for the right to sanitation in Khayelitsha, in the Western Cape province, as part of the Ses’Khona People’s Movement. He was shot dead in Philippi in April 2023 while mediating the relocation of people who had built shacks on the central line of PRASA, South Africa’s state-owned rail operator. Two other accused are due to appear separately.
