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Murder accused asks court for bail
News Date: 31 May 2013
A 36-year-old woman appeared in the Dzanani Magistrate's Court on Monday in connection with a case of murder which happened on 24 March at Tshirolwe Extension 2.
Livhuwani Priscilla Phaswana's formal bail application was postponed yet again, to 6 June.
Phaswana is facing two charges of murder and one of arson, after she had allegedly set alight the one-room house in which her spouse, Josias Thivheli (48), and stepdaughter Rofhiwa Thivheli-Ratshitshi (16) were sleeping.
Thivheli and Rofhiwa sustained serious burns. Thivheli died the following day, while Rofhiwa died a week later in Polokwane as a result of the burns she had sustained during the incident.
Young Rofhiwa was a Grade 9 pupil at Mushaathoni Secondary School and Thivheli was an employee at Exxaro mining in Delmas, Mpumalanga.
Written by
Tshifhiwa Mukwevho
Tshifhiwa Given Mukwevho was born in 1984 in Madombidzha village, not far from Louis Trichardt in the Limpopo Province. After submitting articles for roughly a year for Limpopo Mirror's youth supplement, Makoya, he started writing for the main newspaper. He is a prolific writer who published his first book, titled A Traumatic Revenge in 2011. It focusses on life on the street and how to survive amidst poverty. His second book titled The Violent Gestures of Life was published in 2014.
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