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The boyfriend, Thato Kutumela, 26, was also the father of Zanele Khumalo's unborn child.

She was five months pregnant when she was strangled at her parents' home in Garsfontein, Pretoria, in April last year.

Kutumela faces charges of murder, rape and robbery. He pleaded not guilty to the charges in the high court in Pretoria yesterday.

Zanele's father Themba Khumalo said he met Kutumela seven months before his daughter's murder and that Kutumela was her date at her matric dance in August.

"He said he wanted a good future with my daughter. I felt my daughter was in good hands and I accepted him as my daughter's boyfriend. I also told him that I loved my children and I would not like her to be hurt," Khumalo said.

He said he learnt in January that his daughter was pregnant.

In his affidavit before the court, Kutumela said he was on his way to work on the day of the murder but took the wrong taxi and ended up at Zanele's house.

"When I arrived someone had already opened the complex gate and she opened the door for me. We had sex and I left for work."

Judge Johan Kruger postponed the matter to today to rule on the admissibility of some of the state's evidence.

Prosecutor George Baloyi submitted that it was in the interest of justice that hear-say evidence be admitted.

Kutumela's legal representative, Anneke van Wyk, opposed the application, saying the evidence was unreliable.

- ratsatsip@sowetan.co.za

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Oct 16, 2012

warry

What. Had sex and then. Killed her? Some men!!! That's double murder.
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Oct 16, 2012

Ma-curves

In his affidavit before the court, Kutumela said he was on his way to work on the day of the murder but took the wrong taxi and ended up at Zanele's house.
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wow-wow-wow what a coincidence took a wrong taxi to work on da very same day poor Zanele got raped n murdered.....ijele likufanele shamez.....
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Oct 16, 2012

McCountryMan

Now bafana you are going to open a wrong to prison, i wish he get a life sentence
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Oct 16, 2012

Eraser

sometimes is so shameful 2 b a man
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Oct 16, 2012

mashima?

You might ask yourself, was there an argument, while had sex, which has led to a murder. If i was a prosecutor I will detect that the fact that he took a wrong taxi, it is because he was already scared and confused about what he have done back there.
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Oct 16, 2012

Tobby

Only six years for murdering someone so cruelly??????? Really there's no justice in this facken country hence people kill others in front of police men.
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Oct 16, 2012

Tobby

Sorry I add wrong notes to this aticle, thousand appologies about "Only six years for murdering"
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Oct 16, 2012

Voetzek

"Kutumela faces charges of murder, rape and robbery. He pleaded not guilty to the charges in the high court in Pretoria yesterday"
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There is no story here, they just accuse this guy, he is innocent
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Oct 16, 2012

Lehido

Took a wrong taxi, and ended up at the girl's house, they had sex and left?.......REALLY?
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Oct 16, 2012

Papage

He is sick bastard
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