MEN are always on the hunt for women, particularly in clubs and taverns.
But the murder trial of Prince Lethukuthula Zulu is showing that the hunter can become the hunted.
The case is also revealing how the hunt for “stocko” can lead to your house getting ransacked or death, like in the case of Lethukuthula.
One of the four women accused of killing the prince, Margaret Koaile (42), recently revealed in the South Gauteng High Court the strategy they used to hunt, spike men’s drinks and steal their stuff.
Margaret, who is the oldest in the group, said they went to taverns armed with eye drops, looking for horny men on the hunt for women.
But before they spiked their drinks, they made sure he took them home and the one who would sleep with him spiked it.
Their victim would then fall into a deep sleep, giving them time to steal his belongings.
The same modus operandi was used on Lethukuthula but this time around, things went south for the women, who have been in custody for over two years following the discovery of the prince’s naked body in his Randburg townhouse.
Though they were charged with his murder, it is not clear how they allegedly killed him as the only thing detected in his system was cocaine.
During the bail application in December 2020, accused number one, Tshegofatso Moremane (30), the one who caught the prince’s eye, said Lethukuthula went to the bathroom three times and came back with white stuff on his nose.
To back this, accused number four, Portia Mmola (28), said she and the prince’s friend Nkosi Msimang made a quick stop to buy what she told the court were drugs.
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But none of the above explained how the cocaine ended up in Lethukuthula’s stomach, as revealed in the toxicology report.
The doctor said this meant the drugs were consumed through the mouth, which was not the ordinary way of using cocaine.
The women will spend their second Christmas in custody as the matter has been postponed to 10 April 2023, for the state to call expert witnesses.
