,OVM3701 Assignment 1 (COMPLETE ANSWERS)
Semester 1 2025 - DUE April 2025; 100% correct
solutions and explanations.
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”. Van Wyk, who is also
Semester 1 2025 - DUE April 2025; 100% correct
solutions and explanations.
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”. Van Wyk, who is also
