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TAC killing: Two get 20 years'
07/04/2008 19:19 - (SA)
Cape Town - Two men have been sentenced to an effective 20 years' jail each for the rape and murder of a Treatment Action Campaign member, said an official at Khayelitsha Regional Court on Monday.
Nandipha Makeke, 18, was raped and then shot in the head in December 2005.
A magistrate last week convicted Thembinkosi Ntukani, 24, and Bonga Sibhozo, 19, of the crime.
Ntukani initially made a confession which he later tried to withdraw, while Sibhozo's semen was found on Makeke's body.
A TAC organiser in Khayelitsha, Lumkile Sizila, said after Monday's sentencing that while some TAC members were happy with the outcome, he was not completely satisfied.
He would have preferred to see the men given life sentences for the murder, he said.
TAC members being harassed
"Because Nandipha is not coming again; in 20 years, Nandipha will not come back," he said.
Scores of TAC members have protested outside court during the more than 20 appearances in the case.
Two other men were earlier found not guilty and discharged.
The TAC claimed its members in Khayelitsha's Harare area were being harassed by associates of the convicted men, and had threatened to obtain an interdict.
In 2006, the Cape High Court sentenced two men for the murder of Khayelitsha TAC member Lorna Mlofana.
They raped her, then killed her when she disclosed that she was HIV positive.
- SAPA
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