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'Giving Manqele a life sentence will not bring Flabba back': Childhood friend

5. Flabba.
5. Flabba.

Not even a life sentence for Sindiswe Manqele can heal the broken hearts.

These are the sentiments expressed by Nkuli 'Flabba' Habedi's neighbours and friends as his killer's case is nearing the end at the Randburg Magistrate's Court.

Sindisiwe Manqele was convicted of killing the late Skwatta Kamp member in 2015 and the sentencing procedures kicked off on Wednesday, exactly a year since the rapper was killed. 

Manqele stabbed Flabba in the heart during a heated argument at the rapper's home shortly after arriving from a party in Sandton in the early hours of the morning.

"I just want justice, he won't come back either way but can the law just do the right thing so that we can find comfort because we have lost big time," said his childhood friend Shimane Ramapulana.

"Giving her life will not bring justice to me because it's not gonna bring him back but they should do what they think is right, its the law."

Ramapulana said that he was close to Flabba and reflected on how he would watch him making music and writing lyrics.

"I can't say he was my friend, he was my brother and more, we grew up together and had known each other for the longest time. I knew him from when we were kids, before he even became a member of Skwatta Kamp," he said.

"His death affected me a lot because he was never sick, we never saw him sick so we can't tell ourselves that he was sick and he left, its not like that. You speak to a person this morning and the next morning you hear the person is no longer with us. That is very painful," reflected an emotional Ramapulana.

Neighbour Vuma Masemola who watched Flabba grow up told Sowetan Live how he would accompany him to studio recording sessions when he joined Skwatta Kamp.

"I lived with him, he was like my younger brother, I watched him grow in the yard and I used to go to studios with him. He started his things [music career] before he was famous. He would introduce me to his celebrity friends and now I know them because of him," he said.

"That girl [Manqele] has done sh**, she has disappointed me. I am forever worried now."

He explained that they loved and accepted Manqele into their clique as she was his girlfriend.

Masemola said that they never had a problem with her but now they do as she has taken him away from them.

"She was wrong to have resorted to killing him, she shouldn't have killed him. The killing has disgusted me as I used to love her but now I hate her because of this," he said.

 

 

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