Worker gets 15 years in prison for elderly woman's murder
A man has been convicted and sentenced for the 2016 murder a 91-year-old woman whom he'd worked for for 15 years.
Dominic Mzwempi Cebisa has been jailed for an effective 20 years for killing the pensioner and for aggravated robbery.
Cebisa strangled and suffocated Ragama Naidu to death in her family home, in Tongaat.
He then grabbed items including airtime, cigarettes and beer from the tuck shop Naidu's daughter, Vee, ran from the property and then fled.
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In her arguments in aggravation of sentence, State advocate Khatija Essack said that Naidu didn't deserve to die the way she did and urged the court not to deviate from the minimum prescribed sentence of 15 years.
In the end, Acting Judge Bert Laing gave Cebisa years behind bars.
Vee says Cebisa was like family to her and her mother - and she doesn't understand why he did what he did.