The Durban High Court has on Friday, 20 June 2025 sentenced 28-year-old Nkazumulo Ndlovu, Mzameleni Tsepo Majola (33), and 35-year-old Mondli Fihlela to a combined eight terms of life imprisonment plus 187 years in jail after they were found guilty of taxi industry related murders, attempted murders, kidnappings and robberies with aggravating circumstances which they committed in the areas of Mayville, KwaDukuza, Empangeni and KwaMsane.
The cases were transferred from various police stations to the Provincial Taxi Violence Unit and the investigating team arrested the three suspects in February 2022. Shrewd investigation by the investigating team successfully managed to keep the suspects in custody until the day of the sentencing. Nkazumulo Ndlovu from Empangeni was sentenced to six terms of life imprisonment plus 92 years in jail, Mondli Fihlela from Ndwedwe will spend two terms of life imprisonment plus 50 years facing prison walls, whereas Mzameleni Majola, from Mkhandlwini in Melmoth, was condemned to jail for 45 years. All three convicted murderers were declared unfit to possess firearms.
In another success, police officers who are members of the Provincial Murder and Robbery Unit, Point Tracing Team and Umlazi Trio Task Team arrested a 28-year-old suspect who is linked with the May 2025 mass murder where eight people were shot killed and four other injured inside a house at Zamani informal settlement at U Section in Umlazi. Police acted on a tip-off from a community member and the suspect was found at his hideout spot at Emhlabeni informal settlement in Umlazi. The suspect, who also had a warrant of arrest issued against him for a November 2024 case of pointing of a firearm, will appear in court soon.