Police and accusers are ‘digging for dirt against me’, Richard Mdluli says
The former crime intelligence boss is accused of intimidating‚ kidnapping and assaulting the friends and family of his lover Tshidi Buthelezi
Former crime intelligence boss Richard Mdluli has dismissed the evidence and testimony of several people involved in his criminal case. He and police officer Mthembeni Mthunzi are accused of intimidating‚ kidnapping and assaulting the friends and family of Mdluli’s lover‚ Tshidi Buthelezi‚ whom he had paid lobola for. Buthelezi had reportedly fled with a new lover‚ taxi driver Oupa Ramogibe‚ who was later murdered. It later surfaced that Ramogibe and Buthelezi had secretly tied the knot. Mdluli and Mthunzi face additional charges of defeating the ends of justice. Facing cross-examination in the High Court in Johannesburg on Thursday‚ Mdluli confidently suggested that his accusers had colluded with the police to fabricate information against him. "They were tasked to dig for any dirt against me‚" Mdluli said. One of those people whom Mdluli accuses of lying is Alice Manana‚ a friend of Buthelezi’s. Manana said that in the 1990s‚ Mdluli had come to her home with Mthunzi where they ass...
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