The Gauteng high court has imposed a partial media blackout in the trial of Ntuthuko Shoba, accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend Tshegofatso Pule.
Acting judge Stuart Wilson ordered that the trial may be broadcast but with certain conditions:
The court proceedings are not allowed to be live-streamed and only highlights of the trial can be broadcast during regular broadcast bulletins.material on the progress of the trial before they testify.Wilson asked Shoba how he intended to plead to the two counts — murder or conspiracy to commit murder and defeating the ends of justice.Pule, a 28-year-old Johannesburg-based beauty products representative, was eight months pregnant when she was killed in June 2020.
Malephane was handed a 20-year jail term last year after he confessed that Shoba had allegedly paid him R70,000 to murder Pule in a bid to hide his affair and the pregnancy from his wife. Now a state witness, Malephane was also found guilty of obstructing justice, being in possession of an unlicensed firearm and possession of ammunition.
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