Unike ubungqina unobhala weJaji uMongameli waseMpuma Koloni uSelby Mbenenge kwiNkundla ejongene neNdlela yokuziPhatha ngoMvulo, echaza ngento awayibonayo mhla uAndiswa Mengo esithi uMbenenge wamcela ukuba alale naye ngomlomo.
INkundla iphanda ngezityholo zikaMengo zokuba uMbenenge wahlukumeza ngokwesondo uMengo. Ukuba ufunyaniswe enetyala, unokujongana nokutyholwa.
UMengo, unobhala weejaji, wangqina ebutsheni balo nyaka ukuba emva kwemini kweyeNkanga ka-2022, uMbenenge wambizela emagumbini akhe kwinkundla ephakamileyo eMthatha, wamkhomba iqhuma eblukhweni yakhe, wathi “jonga into ondenza yona,” wacela ukwabelana ngesondo ngomlomo. Watsho ejika ehamba.
UMbenenge uyaphika ukuba esi sehlo senzeka.
UZintle Nkqayi, owayengunobhala kaMbenenge ngelo xesha, wabizwa ukuba anike ubungqina liqela lamagqwetha kaMbenenge.
Uthe emva kweentlanganiso kusasa, uMbenenge waphuma esiya kwisidlo sasemini wakugqiba waya ebhankini. Wabuya emva kwexesha, ngentsimbi yesi-3.30pm, wadibana namagqwetha awayelindele ukumbona.
UNkqayi uthi uphume imizuzu emithathu kuphela kwiofisi yakhe, ekhokelela kwigumbi lakhe, ngenjikalanga yaloo njikalanga, esiya kukhangela elinye lamagumbi enkundla apho uMbenenge ebeza kwenza isifundo.
Wabuyela e-ofisini yakhe, wakhapha uMbenenge ukuya kwindawo awayefundisa kuyo, wabuyela e-ofisini yakhe ukuya kulanda izinto zakhe, wemka emsebenzini malunga kushiyeke amashumi amabini kubethe intsimbi yesihlanu (4.40pm). UMengo, ngokwerejista yokubakho, wayemkile phambi kwakhe.
Imifanekiso yeCCTV yepaseji engaphandle kwegumbi lakhe ukusukela ngomhla wesityholo sesehlo ayibonisi uMengo okanye uMbenenge.
UNkqayi uthe le vidiyo ayizange imbonise uMbenenge kuba ebesebenzisa umnyango osecaleni. Lo mnyango uphumela kwipaseji engajongwanga yiCCTV.
UMengo ukhe wangqina ukuba ngentseni yesehlo sokwabelana ngesondo ngomlomo, uMbenenge waye waphawula ngendlela awayenxibe ngayo, ebuza ukuba kutheni enxibe “ikhethini”. Uthe akazange ayifumane le nto icaphukisayo.
UNkqayi ungqinile ukuba uyibonile le nto. Uthe le “yintetho yakhe yemihla ngemihla”, kwaye angatsho athethe nangendlela anxiba ngayo amagqwetha.
“Nditsho nam, uzothi ‘haibo ntombi enkulu, uvukile, kutheni unxibe iimpahla zakho zokulala’,” watsho.
Ebuzwa ngemibuzo, inkokeli yobungqina, uSolame Scheepers, ubuze ukuba ingaba uNkqayi ebengazikhumbula njani iinkcukacha ezinje ngeziganeko ezenzeka phantse kwiminyaka emithathu eyadlulayo.
UNkqayi uthe “usebenzise idayari yam ukuzikhumbuza, ngokubanzi ingqondo yam,” kwaye, ukulungiselela ukunika ubungqina phambi kwenkundla, uye wayifunda ingxelo efungelweyo awayeyisusile ngo-Okthobha ka-2024.
UScheepers wambuza ukuba uyayazi kusini na into yokuba isifungo sobuxoki sisenzo solwaphulo-mthetho. “Ndikunika ithuba lokucingisisa nzulu ngoko ukuthethileyo njengobungqina,” watsho. Wabuza ukuba kukho into afuna ukuyitshintsha kubungqina bukaNkqayi.
UNkqayi uphendule wathi: “Andinayo into endikholelwa ukuba mandiyilungise.”
UAdvocate Griffits Madonsela, omele uMbenenge, ubuze uNkqayi ukuba kwakutheni ukuze alishiye iSebe lezoBulungisa ngoTshazimpuzi walo nyaka.
Uye wahleka. Ebuzwa ngusihlalo weNkundla yamaTyala uJaji Bernard Ngoepe ukuba kutheni ehlekile, uthe: “Yayingekokungabi nantlonipho, kodwa andikhange ndicinge ukuba eso siluleko singaya kude kangako.”
Wathandabuza waza emva koko wathi, “Andizange ndimbone lo uzayo. Andizange ndikwazi ukuqhubeka ndisebenza phantsi kwezo meko ukususela oko [uMongameli weJaji] wemkayo. Impatho yayingekho ntle, ndaqonda ukuba ndandijamelene nodandatheko olwaluya kuphumela ekubeni ndisiwe kwiziko labagula ngengqondo.
UMbenenge wafakwa kwikhefu elikhethekileyo ngoDisemba ka-2023 emva kokuba uMengo efake isikhalazo esisemthethweni ngakuye.