The man who pleaded guilty to stabbing Ukrainian businessman Ivan Ivanov to death was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Monday as the Western Cape High Court showed a measure of mercy by deviating from a life sentence.
Sinaye Mposelwa pleaded guilty to the premeditated murder of Ivanov just as he set off for a hike from East Fort above Chapman's Peak Drive on 27 July 2019. A couple walking their dog abandoned their walk when they saw Mposelwa and two alleged accomplices behaving erratically, eventually hiding in a bush as they approached.
In his plea agreement, Mposelwa said they had laid in wait with knives to rob whoever came past them, and when they ambushed Ivanov, he had fought back, so he was stabbed 11 times and left for dead. Prosecutor Thamsanqa Kwetane said Ivanov's murder was not only a loss to the agriculture sector, where he trained South African companies, but that the family had lost their breadwinner too.
His advocate Charles Simon told the court during pre-sentencing agreements that Mposelwa was a school drop-out who had very little family support, and had fallen in with the wrong crowd.
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