Durban — Hillcrest SAPS member Mlungisi Blessing Sikhakhane who faces two charges of murder had his bail application postponed in the Pinetown Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.
Sikhakhane is accused of killing his girlfriend Sthembile Ngobese, 24, and his ex-girlfriend Enhle Majozi,18.
He is alleged to have shot the two women in KwaNyuswa, near Pinetown, where he was renting a home. He will be back in court on November 7.
Majozi’s family have created an online petition calling for Sikhakhane not to be released on bail. They are pleading with the public to sign the petition.
Majozi’s father Oscar Sandile Msomi said when he saw Sikhakhane walking into court “his demeanour does not show any kind of remorse and that’s very worrying.
“The more people we have who are against this person getting bail will be to our advantage because we do not want to have a person like that on the streets. I would have expected someone facing such serious charges to not have the neck to carry his head,” Msomi said.
“You would want to have heavy shoulders, and like you have no leg to stand on because you are so worried about yourself, but to walk into court and stand with a strong posture like that, that’s a very strange way to respond to such a situation.
“As a family we are worried and hope for justice in the end because this has been a nightmare,” Msomi added.
Sikhakhane had been in an eight-year relationship with Ngobese and according to Msomi had been seeing Majozi for less than five months.
Ngobese’s family members said they did not know how both women ended up at his home but heard that the relationship with Ngobese had been under strain since 2019.
A relative said Sikhakhane and Ngobese were high school sweethearts but in 2019 Ngobese found out that he was allegedly cheating on her.
“There were others after that,” said a family member who shared that she was in the same class at Sithengile Secondary School in Clermont.
Sibusisiwe Dlamini who is Ngobese’s best friend, said the postponement had left her heart-broken.
“As a family, we feel there should not have been a bail hearing. He should just go to jail for what he did.
“You cannot kill people and expect to be given bail for us to listen to what you did. Our family is broken. Sithembile’s twin brother is broken and he is always crying,” Dlamini said.
Msomi said that they felt threatened by what Sikhakhane could possibly do, should he be granted bail.
“This person is not even suspended at work. He will immediately jump into his duties, carry a gun, and be ordered to protect the public. We need justice.”
Msomi felt the postponement was justice delayed but in the interim he was glad Sikhakhane was behind bars.
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