INSURANCE POLICY OUTRAGE: Murder for Money trial — testimony recounts loss, lies and a witness killing
The Gqeberha high court heard how an alleged Murder for Money syndicate convinced a mother to lie for their profit, and how that mother was suspiciously murdered weeks before she was due to testify in court.
The Gqeberha high court heard testimony recounting the tragic events surrounding a mother's suspicious murder, her coerced lie for financial gain, and her subsequent assassination before testifying in a Murder for Money trial. Sipho Jolingana, the alleged victim of the nine murders linked to a syndicate, was shot and killed in Kariega, Nelson Mandela Bay, on 24 July 2022.
Mandisa Jolingana, his mother, went to the police station to identify his body and later returned with two men who claimed to be distant relatives, seeking assistance in filing documents for funeral policy claims. Suspicion arose when the detective received multiple calls about additional policies on Sipho Jolingana, leading him to inform Mandisa that their claims would be investigated for potential fraud.
Constraints compelled Mandisa to reveal that the two men were not family but offered R20,000 to lie about their relationship. Tragically, Mandisa was assassinated in her home in Kariega three months before her scheduled testimony, leaving behind affidavits read into the record by Kamesh detective Ben Michaels. The ongoing trial involved Mbane, Msome, their wife Xolelwa, and Unathi Peter, accused of being involved in the scheme that resulted in nine murders and six fraudulent funeral policies across multiple insurance companies.
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