Tshegofatso Pule

The Johannesburg high court has found former JSE analyst Ntuthuko Shoba guilty of the murder of his pregnant girlfriend Tshegofatso Pule.

In any event, the state’s case did not begin and end with Malephane’s testimony,” Wilson said. “These aspects of the evidence were enough in themselves to put Shoba on his defence. But he had been, nonetheless, fortuitously assisted in his lies by four extraordinary pieces of luck,” Wilson said. Wilson said Shoba had known what was going to happen to Pule on the fateful night and that he had arranged the hit and her pickup by Malephane. Wilson said it was unchallenged that Malephane had picked Pule up from Shoba’s complex on the night that he killed her and that Shoba was present when he picked her up. "Secondly, there was Malephane’s unchallenged assertion that he had no prior relationship with Pule and that he in fact he did not know her and had no motive for or means of making contact with her other than with Shoba’s assistance and at his behest,” Wilson said.

The High Court in Johannesburg has convicted Ntuthukho Shoba on a charge of premeditated murder.

And to concoct a story that implicated Mr Shoba.” “I’ve reached the following verdict. “And that when that plan failed, he knowingly and intentionally delivered Miss Pule into Mr Malephane hands on the night of the fourth of June 2020.”