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Killer Nkuna charged again with Hillary Gardee's murder
Serial killer Hlabirwa Rassie Nkuna, against whom charges of murdering EFF deputy- president Godrich Gardee's daughter Hillary were dropped, will now go on trial for the killing.
Nkuna is accused of killing Gardee, 28, in 2022. Charges against Nkuna and three others were provisionally withdrawn in the Mpumalanga High Court in April 2023.
The state prosecutor said at the time the trial could not go ahead because three key witnesses, including a sangoma who claimed one of the accused in the murder case had consulted him for cleansing, could not be traced.
Mpumalanga NPA spokesperson Monica Nyuswa on Monday confirmed to Sowetan that Nkuna had been charged with Gardee's murder again.
'Nkuna appeared in separate courts today [Monday] in the Nelspruit magistrate's court. He first appeared in the district court where he is charged with possession of a firearm. I don't have background information [on this matter].
'He then appeared again in the regional court for the murder of [Godrich] Gardee's daughter. That matter is postponed to October for trial in the high court,' said Nyuswa.
She had not, at the time of going to print, responded to further questions about whether the state had been able to trace the witnesses or if there was new evidence in the case.
