Two friends who admitted to killing an e-hailing taxi driver last month have each been sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Twenty-five-year-old Nkosinathi Mathobela and 21-year-old Kwanele Buthelezi pleaded guilty in the Pietermaritzburg High Court and were subsequently sentenced.
A spokesperson for the National Prosecuting Authority in KZN Natasha Ramkisson Kara says the two men spent the night drinking at a tavern in the early hours of the morning of the 22nd of November.
She says Buthelezi decided to call a metered taxi, via an app although they had no money to pay for it.
The taxi driver, 32-year-old Thabani Sibisi arrived at the tavern and asked the friends to pay their fee upfront.
Ramkisson Kara says they told him that they had no money and that they would pay at the end of the trip.
She says an argument ensued and Sibisi asked them to get out of his car.
The court heard that Buthelezi then produced a firearm with the intention to shoot Sibisu but his friend Mathobela pulled the trigger, shooting the driver in the head.
The friends pushed Sibisi's body out of the car and drove off, only to return to drive over his body.
The NPA says the men were spotted by a security company that followed them and effected their arrest.
Sibisi was the sole breadwinner of his family.
