MANIINI – A resident of Maniini Village, Mr Mawela Samson Mudau, is living in fear of his life following telephonic threats that he received recently.

According to Mudau, it was about 20:25 on May 28 when his cellphone rang. When he picked up the call the caller who vehemently refused to identify himself, warned him to guard himself against hired killers. The anonymous caller told Mudau that he had been hired to kill him and that he could not do it for some reasons.

He further told Mudau that his fear was that the people who had hired him might decide to approach somebody else to do the job as he was not prepared to kill Mudau. According to Mudau he requested his wife later that night to phone the anonymous caller on the cellphone number that had registered on his cellphone when the "killer" called.

The man answered Mudau's wife's call but still refused to identify himself. According to Mudau he phoned the same number from his work telephone the following day and once again the man refused to identify himself. That was the last time Mudau spoke to the man.

What followed next was that the same cellphone number was on voicemail when he tried to phone it thereafter. Mudau told Mirror that he has ever since been trying to find out from other people whether they know the owner of the telephone number that was used, but with no success.