,OVM3701 Assignment 1 (COMPLETE
ANSWERS) Semester 1 2025 - DUE April
2025
Case study
Khomotso Tladi was charged for complicity in the murder of her
husband, Andrew Tladi, a senior Limpopo health department
official. He was shot several times and his body dumped hundreds
of kilometres away from his home. His total estate amounted to
nearly R4 million (News 24, 2005). Mpumalanga police
spokesperson, Captain Malcolm Mokomene, confirmed that four
other people were arrested in connection with Tladi’s death. Two
of them, Gilbert Makhobela, 43, and Samson Mogalaka, 32, are
the alleged killers, while the other two, Eva Sithole, 43, and
Gustav Snyman, 19, are part of the team called the “brains behind
the plan to kill Tladi” on 3 December 2004. According to the
statement, Tladi’s wife simply wanted the killers to “scare” her
husband in order to convince him that Polokwane is a dangerous
place.
, This was after he allegedly asked her to relocate with him to
Polokwane, where he has been working for four months as a
senior manager in Limpopo’s Health and Social Development
Department (News 24,2005).
The widow of the slain Limpopo pharmacist has denied ordering
three hitmen to kill her husband.
She says she only wanted them to scare him. Tladi was shot and
wounded and then driven in the boot of his Mercedes-Benz to
Marble Hall, where he was “finished off”, allegedly by Mogalaka.
Tladi’s widow told the court through her counsel, Johan van Wyk,
that she would state in her evidence that she did not ask the men
to kill her husband “but to scare him” so that he would return to
their Pretoria home (News 24, 2005).
Van Wyk said his client refused to pay the hitmen R150 000 each
for their part in the murder but offered them R3 000 plus R500.
This was refuted by Snyman, who said that the payment had been
discussed at one of several meetings at Mogakala’s house. He said
the widow told them “she wants us to kill her husband”.
ANSWERS) Semester 1 2025 - DUE April
2025
Case study
Khomotso Tladi was charged for complicity in the murder of her
husband, Andrew Tladi, a senior Limpopo health department
official. He was shot several times and his body dumped hundreds
of kilometres away from his home. His total estate amounted to
nearly R4 million (News 24, 2005). Mpumalanga police
spokesperson, Captain Malcolm Mokomene, confirmed that four
other people were arrested in connection with Tladi’s death. Two
of them, Gilbert Makhobela, 43, and Samson Mogalaka, 32, are
the alleged killers, while the other two, Eva Sithole, 43, and
Gustav Snyman, 19, are part of the team called the “brains behind
the plan to kill Tladi” on 3 December 2004. According to the
statement, Tladi’s wife simply wanted the killers to “scare” her
husband in order to convince him that Polokwane is a dangerous
place.
, This was after he allegedly asked her to relocate with him to
Polokwane, where he has been working for four months as a
senior manager in Limpopo’s Health and Social Development
Department (News 24,2005).
The widow of the slain Limpopo pharmacist has denied ordering
three hitmen to kill her husband.
She says she only wanted them to scare him. Tladi was shot and
wounded and then driven in the boot of his Mercedes-Benz to
Marble Hall, where he was “finished off”, allegedly by Mogalaka.
Tladi’s widow told the court through her counsel, Johan van Wyk,
that she would state in her evidence that she did not ask the men
to kill her husband “but to scare him” so that he would return to
their Pretoria home (News 24, 2005).
Van Wyk said his client refused to pay the hitmen R150 000 each
for their part in the murder but offered them R3 000 plus R500.
This was refuted by Snyman, who said that the payment had been
discussed at one of several meetings at Mogakala’s house. He said
the widow told them “she wants us to kill her husband”.
