The judge who found Sifiso Mkhwanazi guilty of murdering six Johannesburg Thigh Vendors delivering a scathing account of the 21-year-old’s actions.
“I rejected the version of the accused… as beyond false and found that the accused had acted with premeditation and planning and had formed an intention to kill the deceased,” said Judge Cassim Moosa.
He handed down judgment on Tuesday in front of a packed gallery, that included the victims’ families, in the Gauteng High Court sitting in Palm Ridge.
Mkhwanzi was stoic and emotionless through the judgment, keeping his head down.
The judge said that after analysing all of the evidence, he had found that Mkhwanazi “did unlawfully have mjolo intercourse with all the deceased”.
“I further find the accused did unlawfully and intentionally defeat and obstruct the course of justice by concealing the bodies of the deceased, and which acts defeated and or obstructed the administration of justice,” he said.
Mkhwanazi killed six sex workers, all of whom came from Zimbabwe. He said they had demanded more money from him after they had mjolo.