MAN ACCUSED OF TUT STUDENT NTOKOZO XABA’S MURDER APPEAR IN COURT.
“He’s a killer… you took her from us.”
This was one of the songs chanted by Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) students after Ngcebo Thusi, accused of murdering Ntokozo Xaba, made his first appearance in court.
Thusi, 23, briefly appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court.
Standing in the dock, wearing a grey hoodie and jeans, Thusi, with arms folded, looked ahead as the packed gallery did not take their eyes off him.
With some members in the gallery quietly jeering, the State asked for the matter to be postponed in order to obtain Thusi’s criminal profile and his fixed address for purposes of bail.
After the matter was postponed, around 80 TUT students started singing and chanting. One of the students addressed the crowd to the and was resolute that they would fight against Thusi being granted bail.
“If they give him bail, we are going to kill him,” the student said.
Thusi has been charged with defeating the ends of justice and murder after he allegedly stabbed his ex-girlfriend, Xaba, at a TUT residence on Wednesday night.
According to police, the two were allegedly drinking with friends on the night before the murder. The friends allegedly left them, and Xaba’s body was found with stab wounds to the neck the following day.
Ekhaya Junction Management, which manages the residence where the murder allegedly took place, said in a statement it was made aware on Thursday morning that Xaba’s friends were unable to get hold of her on her cellphone.
Paramedics rushed to the scene, where they found Xaba unresponsive in her room. She was declared dead at the scene, the statement read.
Thusi is expected to appear in court again on 13 February.
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