Flabba’s Killer Sindisiwe Manqele Gets Sentenced To 12 Years In Prison

She was initially charged with murder of killing Flabba on 9 March 2015 but pleaded guilty and claimed she acted in self-defence. The verdict was on and Sindisiwe Manqele has been sentenced to 12 years for the murder of her rapper boyfriend Nkululeko “Flabba” Habedi.

Manqele was charged with murder on 9 March after she fatally stabbed the famous rapper in the chest with a steak knife at his home in Alexandra. In her affidavit before court, she admitted to killing Habedi by stabbing him in the heart but said she had been brutally attacked by the deceased on the day of his death.

Acting Judge Solly Sithole told the High Court sitting in the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court as he delivered sentence on Thursday that Manqele exceeded the boundaries of self-defence when she stabbed the musician with a knife.

Sithole said a crime is a crime, and that murder “even smells to the nostrils of heaven”.

“It is now my unpleasant task to sentence you … you are sentenced for a period of 12 years, you will not be granted parole until you serve eight years of the sentence”, the judge ruled.