CCTV footage identifies the time as 02:48am on Friday 28 April. Within hours‚ Mokoena would die at the hands of her boyfriend Sandile Mantsoe.
In this exclusive TimesLIVE video‚ the investigators and prosecutors responsible for Mantsoe’s conviction and effective 32-year sentence speak about their interactions with the young self-proclaimed forex kingpin – from the time of Mokoena’s disappearance to the end of his trial.
From Mantsoe’s confession to his subsequent insistence that Mokoena had killed herself‚ this story examines how law enforcement officials tried to get inside the head of a man they believe is one of South Africa’s most heartless killers.
Sandile Mantsoe is clearly struggling as he’s filmed coming from his flat, dragging a large bin.
It’s 10.06pm on Friday April 28 and inside the bin is the body of Mantsoe’s murdered girlfriend, Karabo Mokoena.
This chilling CCTV footage, admitted into evidence during Mantsoe’s trial but not previously publicly released, shows how the young man retrieves a wheelie bin from a room near his flat at 9.57pm. Less than 10 minutes later he’s captured pulling the clearly heavy bin into a lift.
The last time Mokoena was seen alive was at 2.48am that day.
She had been repeatedly abused and assaulted by Mantsoe, and was desperate to start a new life without him. But she never got the chance.
Mokoena was brutally murdered by Mantsoe, who was adamant that she had killed herself at some point in the 12 hours that followed her stepping into a lift with him. He admitted that he disposed of her body by burning it with pool acid, petrol and a tyre, claiming he had done so because he feared being blamed for her death.
In the footage he appears almost nonchalant as he removes the young woman’s body from his flat before taking it to a field in Lyndhurst, where he tried to destroy it. He carefully returns the bin he used to move her body before driving out of his block of flats, Mokoena’s body in the boot of his Mercedes-Benz.
Mantsoe returns to the flat early the following morning, and is seen wearing blue rubber gloves and carrying a green plastic bag into the room containing the wheelie bin.
The footage comes as the lead investigator in the Mokoena case told TimesLIVE he was convinced the young woman was murdered as part of a ritual killing.
He revealed that “60%” of her internal organs‚ including her heart‚ were missing when her burnt body was discovered.
“When the body was found‚ the body of Karabo‚ there were about 60% body parts missing. From my experience, such things … you find in cases that are cult- or maybe ritual-related matters‚” Captain Malefetsane Phillip Radebe said.
I just want to take this opportunity to thank MAMA THANDY for helping me out with the problems i had in my marriage. My marriage was really over but because of your help i was able to fix it after almost 2 years of ups and downs. My life was really a mess because we used to fight with my husband day & night because of an ex. girlfriend who used to call him every night even knowing that he was a married man. We were about to reach a point of separating bedrooms and also thought of filing for divorce as my husband wasn't listening to all my please to stop communicating to this woman. During all this period our marriage was falling apart because i had lost trust in my husband but still loved him and wanted our marriage to be a success. I tried to seek help from different healers but failed. I didn't give up, kept on checking until one day i saw this lady on the internet who was talking about doctor MAMA THANDY and how she helped her to bring back her boyfriend who had left her for another girl. I was resistant at first but the fact that i still loved and missed my husband motivated me to contact Mama Thandy +27814476165 for help. I was really not sure what to expect so i asked her to restore my marriage and also chase away the ex. girlfriend who was breaking my marriage apart. She gave me two weeks but it was amazing really that after the first week my husband who had spent months without talking to me in the house just came straight to me one evening after work and apologized for the pain he put me through and our kids for all the period. He also committed himself to never be in contact with the woman again as he had cut ties with her. My marriage is now restored and am happy to that i managed to be strong until i found you Mama Thandy. Any woman out there facing the same in your love life please don't be ashamed of looking for help just contact Mama thandy privately by either a call or whatsapp to +27814476165
ReplyDelete