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THE Johannesburg High Court has admitted as evidence a confession made by a Soweto man accused of killing his girlfriend, whom he had suspected of cheating.

"The statement was made by the accused while in sober mind and no undue pressure was put on him to confess the way he did.

"The statement is therefore admissible," said Judge Naren Pandya.

In the confession, which was read out in court, Mlungisi Innocent Mchunu, 27, tells of how he shot Senzeni Sikhakhane after he discovered that she was cheating on him.

Mchunu said he had visited Sikhakhane on March 18 last year and found her with another man.

"I later took her cellphone and checked her messages and found that the man she was with, Sugar Mbatha, had sent her a message that read 'I love u' that very day," the statement said.

Mchunu said he went back to Jabulani Hostel in Soweto where he lived, fetched his gun and returned to Sikhakhane's backyard shack where "I shot her in the face."

Mabuyi Mhlongo, who shared the shack with Sikhakhane, testified that on the eve of the murder, Sikhakhane had told her to tell Mchunu that Mbatha was her (Mhlongo's) friend.

Mhlongo said Mbatha had visited them in their shack and they drank alcohol.

"One of the landlord's children called Sikhakhane outside and when she returned, she looked as if she had just seen a ghost," she said.

She said after Mbatha had left, she went to a tuck shop.

"When I came back I found him sitting with Sikhakhane in the shack," Mhlongo said.

"Mchunu wanted to leave and asked Sikhakhane to walk her home but she refused.

"Moments after he had left, Sikhakhane realised her cellphone was missing.

"She realised that Mchunu had taken it. She followed him and demanded to know why he took her cellphone.

"They argued for hours and when she finally returned, she asked me to tell Mchunu that Mbatha was my visitor and not her's."

He faces charges relating to murder and possession of a fire-arm and ammunition.

He has pleaded not guilty to the all charges.

- alfredm@sowetan.co.za

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Aug 17, 2012

2nevvy4u

bloody pigard
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Aug 17, 2012

NeoBaBe

HAHAHA..
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Aug 17, 2012

KatakataEmaotoAditshepe

"I shot her in the face."
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He's a bloody cold hearted animal this thug.

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Aug 17, 2012

RaoN

Bloody bo febe and bloody bo coward.
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Aug 17, 2012

Papage

"Mchunu said he went back to Jabulani Hostel in Soweto where he lived, fetched his gun and returned to Sikhakhane's backyard shack where "I shot her in the face."

"He has pleaded not guilty to the all charges"

Justify your deed, I always preach to my sisters not to fall in love with the men in the hostels or a Zulu ka matlalo a kwetseng dipipi, corwards
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Aug 17, 2012

Lehido

zulus
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Aug 17, 2012

beautiful4

u will rot in jail baba your fool!!
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Aug 17, 2012

RaoN

It's so funny that a black man thinks he's better than another black man.
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Aug 17, 2012

SWEETYK

Guys whooooo, Zulus or not banna ba controlang ke anger ba bolaya @ Papage o lebetse LOLO RAMATSELA he is not a Zulu boy akere? guys emisang ganyane ka kgethollo.
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Aug 17, 2012

Iphone5

truth is i triued understanding what i was reading but then their surnames kept being on my way can 1 pls explain to me
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