Muzi Sibiya to be sentenced in drugs, illegal ammunition case

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One of the five men accused of Senzo Meyiwa’s murder, Muzi Sibiya, is expected to be sentenced in a separate case in the Tembisa Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.

Sibiya was found guilty of possession of drugs and illegal ammunition in December last year.

The drug charge dates back to 2019 when Sibiya was found in possession of 10 sachets of drugs in Tembisa.

He was arrested again in 2020 after police found live ammunition in a plastic bag inside his shack.

Sibiya was charged with drug dealing when he was first arrested by Constable Mudau and Constable Baloyi on 19 March 2019, but the charges were later withdrawn.

He was then re-arrested just over a year later by Sergeant Batho Mogola on the 30th of May 2020, when new evidence was found against him.

When he was arrested in May 2020, police said they found nine rounds of live ammunition in his room in Tembisa. He was subsequently charged with illegal possession of ammunition.

Magistrate Jerome Josephs acquitted Sibiya of the charge of dealing in drugs. However, he found him guilty of the alternative charge of possession.

Reading out the judgment, Magistrate Josephs said that according to the evidence presented in court, the police officers who arrested him told the court that Sibiya had told them the substance found in his pocket was Nyaope and that the money was the proceeds of dealing drugs.

But this was denied by Sibiya.