Prominent Dimbaza businessman and EFF leader Aubrey Ntusi is embroiled in a murder investigation following the killing of a schoolboy employee.
The 25-year-old Grade 10 pupil succumbed to injuries at Cecilia Makiwane hospital on Wednesday following 20 days in ICU after he was allegedly tortured at Ntusi’s business premises on December 29.
Ntusi is the chairman of the EFF in the Dimbaza region and a member of the area’s community policing forum. He is also organiser of the Dimbaza business forum.
The deceased, Lizwi Mfundiso Mtshaza, worked for Ntusi as a security guard at his spray-painting and panel-beating business.
According to Mtshaza’s mother, Nomfusi, her son died of burn wounds from a blowtorch at Ntusi’s car workshop.
Mtshaza said yesterday she believed her son had been kidnapped and held hostage on December 29 at the workshop by Ntusi and three accomplices after a tyre and a car part went missing. Ntusi denies he had anything to do with the incident.
The mother said Lizwi had been severely wounded and doctors had to transfer him from King William’s Town’s Grey hospital to Cecilia Makiwane in Mdantsane on December 30.
According to Mtshaza, Lizwi spent the first week in ICU unable to speak. “When he was finally able to speak – he told me that he had been assaulted and roasted by Aubrey .”
Mtshaza said the four men had promised her that they would cause no harm to her son and that they would just interrogate him and hand him over to the police.
“After I spent a greater part of that Friday 29 December pleading with them to release my son, I left and went home to prepare food for him which my husband took to him.”
Mtshaza said she was shocked to hear from one of Ntusi’s accomplices that Siya had been injured in a blast at the workshop.
Ntusi said he had been told by one of the alleged kidnappers that Lizwi had been injured following an explosion after Lizwi lit a cigarette next to a gas cylinder.
Ntusi said he “loved” Lizwi and would have never harmed him. “He was one of my best employees. From what I hear it was an accident. I was not there during the explosion.”
King William’s Town police spokeswoman Captain Siphokazi Mawisa said the case, which was registered as an assault, would be converted to a murder case with the death of Mtshaza.
Uproar as youth dies from burns
The 25-year-old Grade 10 pupil succumbed to injuries at Cecilia Makiwane hospital on Wednesday following 20 days in ICU after he was allegedly tortured at Ntusi’s business premises on December 29.
Ntusi is the chairman of the EFF in the Dimbaza region and a member of the area’s community policing forum. He is also organiser of the Dimbaza business forum.
The deceased, Lizwi Mfundiso Mtshaza, worked for Ntusi as a security guard at his spray-painting and panel-beating business.
According to Mtshaza’s mother, Nomfusi, her son died of burn wounds from a blowtorch at Ntusi’s car workshop.
Mtshaza said yesterday she believed her son had been kidnapped and held hostage on December 29 at the workshop by Ntusi and three accomplices after a tyre and a car part went missing. Ntusi denies he had anything to do with the incident.
The mother said Lizwi had been severely wounded and doctors had to transfer him from King William’s Town’s Grey hospital to Cecilia Makiwane in Mdantsane on December 30.
According to Mtshaza, Lizwi spent the first week in ICU unable to speak. “When he was finally able to speak – he told me that he had been assaulted and roasted by Aubrey .”
Mtshaza said the four men had promised her that they would cause no harm to her son and that they would just interrogate him and hand him over to the police.
“After I spent a greater part of that Friday 29 December pleading with them to release my son, I left and went home to prepare food for him which my husband took to him.”
Mtshaza said she was shocked to hear from one of Ntusi’s accomplices that Siya had been injured in a blast at the workshop.
Ntusi said he had been told by one of the alleged kidnappers that Lizwi had been injured following an explosion after Lizwi lit a cigarette next to a gas cylinder.
Ntusi said he “loved” Lizwi and would have never harmed him. “He was one of my best employees. From what I hear it was an accident. I was not there during the explosion.”
King William’s Town police spokeswoman Captain Siphokazi Mawisa said the case, which was registered as an assault, would be converted to a murder case with the death of Mtshaza.
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