KNYSNA NEWS - Convicted murderer Waydon Bezuidenhout (34) has been given a life sentence for what Judge Patric Gamble described in the Knysna Circuit Court on Friday 4 October as a "most horrific premeditated crime".
Mawande Kondlo (46), a beloved figure in the Knysna Tourism industry and owner of Wandu Tours and Stays, was found dead on the Bokkoppie Road, north of Knysna, in a pine plantation on Monday, January 17 2022.
Gamble found he was held hostage, tortured and brutally suffocated after being betrayed by his friend and "drinking buddy" Bezuidenhout.
Drug underworld
Until today the real motive for the killing, which has been linked to the drug underworld, is not known.
Gamble said: "For a reason we still do not know, an upstanding member of the Knysna community was taken from the sanctuary of a home which he had proudly built up into a business, held hostage, probably tortured and eventually brutally attacked and murdered."
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