Bhani stood up, smiled, then looked down and never uttered a word.
The pair ambushed and killed Lamontville Taxi Association boss Vela Ndebele at the local community hall where a taxi association meeting was to be held in June 2015.
Bhani from Harding, KwaZulu-Natal south coast, is also serving a life sentence for killing Sipho Ndovela, a key witness in the Glebelands Hostel murders.
Like Ndebele, Ndovela was also surrounded by other people, including police officers, when a bullet hit him.
Ndovela was killed inside Umlazi Magistrate's Court where he had been testifying and had implicated high-profile people in the assassinations, including politicians.
Nobody else was injured in the attack. Bhani was the first man to be arrested and
successfully prosecuted for the murders at Glebelands Hostel.
However, Pillay had bemoaned the unavailability of witnesses in cases involving hitmen.
"The only eye witness, Sibusiso Dube, was reluctant to testify.
"And I do not blame him because he seemed scared and traumatised by the incident."
Dube and other association members were standing next to the deceased when he was killed.
State prosecutor Nadira Moosa said both Duma and Bhani should not be afforded parole because they had no prospects of rehabilitation.
"The deceased had done nothing wrong to them. They also refused to take this honourable court to their confidence by denying to have committed the crime," said Moosa.
