Mr. Request|Published
KIHLE mourned at the Durban High Court, a man accused of stabbing and killing his fiancee, in an incident that took place on October 20, 2024, in Morningside, Durban.
Mr Mhleli Ndaba (33) is charged with murdering his fiancée, Ms Dima Phohlo (31). This event was revealed to have happened after a heated argument that broke out between them. Ndaba is out on bail, which left the family of the deceased in awe, accusing the court of negligence and asking how a murderer is released?
Yesterday, it was the first time for Ndaba to enter the box, to present his own testimony about this case. He first swore that everything he was going to say was the pure truth. He revealed that the deceased had two children with him. Right from the start, Ndaba told the court that he suffered a head injury in an incident that happened while he was living in Mhlanga, in 2021.
In that incident, he said he had a bad fight with the security guard who had been denying them to enter the house with the deceased and the security guard will end up pushing him badly, causing him to fall in a bad place and get injured, his head cracked, he said pointing to where he was injured.
As a result, he said he has a problem with forgetting many things, and told the court not to expect that he will remember everything that happened on the day of his fiancée’s death.
Going back to the incident that happened when his fiancee died, he said that he remembers very little because of it and that he has a problem that he suffered a bad head injury, he forgets many things.
When asked by his lawyer what he remembers about that day, he said: “I had to go to meet my friend because I was killed by a car. The problem was that the deceased did not understand the story of my departure. I remember a bit that when I went out to the gate, he followed me.”
When asked by his lawyer if he remembers stabbing his fiancee in the neck when they were arguing in the street as shown in the video, even when he said nothing he just doesn’t remember at all.
”Was I lying, I don’t remember stabbing Dimpho at all,” he replied and started crying in court.
His lawyer continued and asked him if he remembers being arrested?
”I remember a bit when the police came to me and asked me if I could see what I had done? I remember when I was at the police station, this time people I know came and told me that I am only here because I hurt Dimpho badly. But no one wanted to tell me how injured he was as I asked them.”
He said the investigator was the one who told him that Dimpho is no longer in the world. That’s when he said he started to know that he had killed the person he loved so much in his life.
His lawyer asked him if he ever had intentions to kill Dimpho one day?
”What kind of question is that, how can I kill someone I love. I don’t know at that time, we were planning a lot together with the deceased as he was in his third year at university. One of them was that we wanted to buy our house because we were tired of paying rent.”
When asked what his relationship with the deceased was like at the time of the incident, he answered with great confidence, saying that they were very good.
After concluding his testimony, his lawyer asked him if there was anything he would like to say about this matter. He replied: “I never had the intention of killing Dimpho because I made a decision that my family and my children, I will treat them all well. This matter of torturing someone is not in my blood.”
It is a country was there on the day the court played the video of the day of the incident. In it, Ndaba can be seen leaving the house following the deceased.
On the street, they seem to have an argument, there is a time when Ndaba is seen stabbing the deceased repeatedly. Before he stabs her, their children can be seen getting between them.
During the argument between them, someone is seen trying to mediate, but Ndaba says to finish him off, and he runs away with him.
When he laid down the deceased, one of his children seems to be trying to wake him up.
Ndaba had been accompanied by his family who had come to support him. He was dripping wet in a suit. The family of the deceased were also present. The case continues.