WE ARE SATISFIED with the life sentence given to his brother, a man from Chesterville, Durban, following his conviction for trying to kill his son because he said he was ordering him.
Sududuzo Mavundla (29), was sentenced to life in prison by the Durban District Court on Monday, who was found guilty of attempting to kill Mpendulo Msweli, who was nine years old when the incident occurred in January 2024.
Mpendulo’s father, Mr. Simingezwilenkosi Mavundla, said he was happy with the sentence, and said he hoped it would also make his son happy.
“We will be able to go free, there is no fear that an accident will happen again, my son will not be harmed again. We are freed because at least, since he is incarcerated, he will be released from prison when my child is grown up,” said Mavundla.
On the day of the incident, it is said that the convicted person was a gangster, who had come to visit his father’s house in Chesterville, and said that they had gone to a shop to buy him chips. It is said that he ended up returning alone after a while when the wrestler was gone, and when he was asked about him, he said that he gave R2 to buy chips at the store, while he continued in another direction.
It is said that the victim was searched everywhere, but was not found, until the police were informed. It turns out that he was found in the Victoria Mxenge (King Edward) hospital, with an accident scar on his face. It turned out that Sduduzo, who had been helping when the thief and everyone else were being searched, was the one who had lured him into the forest, where he arrived and wounded him with a certain weapon, leaving him to think he was dead. It is said that the victim woke up after dark, crawled, and reached the street where he was taken by unknown people, who rushed him to the hospital.
Then they cried for the defendant, the victim told the police and relatives that Sduduzo hurt him, saying he wanted to teach his father a lesson.
After Sduduzo’s conviction, his father told Iof the country that his brother said he was hurting him by trying to kill his son since he owed him money.
He stated that the money his brother owed him was R32 000 out of the R61 000 he had lent him at the beginning of 2022.
“He had lost his second income, following the death of his mother in 2014. We talked and agreed that he would lend me R50 000, which I would top up and buy a car to do Uber work. He ended up lending me R61 000, which after depositing it in the bank, he changed it, told the family that I had given him alcohol, and then I stole his money,” said Mavundla.
He said that he was fed up with his brother’s actions, and ended up spending the money carelessly, and did not buy the car he said he was going to buy. He revealed that his brother finally went to the bank to say that the money that went into his brother’s bank, from his own, was stolen. The bank chose to foreclose, unable to exit, but also returned it to the owner.
He went on to say that it was R35 000 that he ended up using recklessly from the R61 000 he had borrowed. He stated that after several family meetings where they tried to resolve the issue and reconcile, they ended up going to the police to look for affidavits which they took to the bank, to release the R26 500 that was locked up.
“When he released the bank, I gave him back R20 000, and I finally found out that he used R15 000 to buy me oxen that were going to kill me,” said Mavundla, who said he escaped the mouth of the crocodile by not going to Nanda where Sduduzo was luring him to take charge.
He said that other family meetings were held to try to come up with a solution because it was evident that the situation was getting out of hand following the fact that Sduduzo had shot at someone’s paid car for the distance traveled, in which Mavundla was traveling.
He went on to say that it had been agreed that in January 2024, he would start paying it little by little until he finished it, which ended up not happening, as Sduduzo tried to kill the wrestler.
He said that even though he knew Sduduzo to have a bad heart, he had never shown that his son was thinking bad things.
“He loved her this way, there is no doubt that he will hurt her,” said Mavundla, who said he was very satisfied with the sentence especially because he thought he would be given eight to ten years, according to a court employee who he said signed a certain paper.
Sduduzo was sentenced only, he was arrested in December 2025 in North West, after escaping from the law in June 2024, following his release on bail. It is a country wrote the story that the police were looking for him, the story was read by a North West police officer who was his neighbor, he contacted the detective from Cato Manor, and said: “Here he is at the bar, drinking alcohol, watching football,” and he was caught.
