The Victim Boitumelo Dlamini suffered 70% burns to her body and died in a veld outside Lethlabile in the North West province
Boitumelo Dlamini was allegedly abducted from the Eletsa Secondary School in Lethlabile on June 18 last year. She was allegedly forced into a waiting car and taken some distance out of town, and then petrol was poured over her.
One of the accused, 23-year-old Cynthia Mosupi, on Thursday pleaded not guilty in the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, to murder and kidnapping. Mosupi said she and her friend Sharon Gugu Twala, 24, simply wanted to scare Dlamini off so that she would stop her affair with her boyfriend.
She explained that they poured petrol over Dlamini in a bid to teach her a lesson, but someone in the vicinity lit a cigarette and she went up in flames.
“We just wanted to frighten her into not seeing my boyfriend. We did not want to hurt her,” she said in a written plea explanation.
Mosupi said she decided to teach the woman a lesson so that she would leave her boyfriend alone.
She and her co-accused went to buy petrol and waited for Dlamini at the gates of the school.
She explained that they smoked marijuana while waiting and when Dlamini walked out the gate, they grabbed her by the arm and took her to a waiting car with some of their friends.
They drove a distance and got out of the car.
She said her friend tried to tie the victim to a tree with her belt, but did not succeed. “I held her and Gugu poured the petrol on her.”
According to Mosupi, someone in the group wanted a cigarette. “After a few minutes I just saw flames.”
She said she did not know who lit the cigarette, but she saw that Dlamini was burning. She begged one of her friends to assist the burning lady but they drove off.
She claimed she was also burnt by the flames and went to hospital where she was arrested. “She was not killed intentionally,” Mosupi said.
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