Philemon Lukhele

The ANC's Mpumalanga legislature chief whip, Fidel Mlombo, says the arrest of an employee in his office in connection with the murder of Hillary Gardee is ...

Lukhele told the court that he and Gardee had known each other for a long time. - Lukhele told the court that he and Gardee had known each other for a long time. - Philemon Lukhele, an employee in the office of the ANC's Mpumalanga legislature chief whip, was one of the three people arrested in connection with the murder of Hillary Gardee.

The three suspects named Sipho Mkhatshwa, Philemon Lukhele and Mduduzi Nkala abandoned bail applications at the Nelspruit Magistrates Court on Monday; they will ...

“Our message was that the suspects should be denied bail because they have exhibited themselves to be a flight risk because they were all caught either fleeing or hiding. We don’t want to enter the realm of engaging the social media reports about the names of the suspects,” he said. All people who are suffering abuse need to be taken into confidence, this is the opportunity for our judicial system to do that,” EFF national spokesperson Sinawo Thambo said. Our organization against any act of violence against women and children we are on the side of the victims,” said Mlambo. As an office we made our own investigations, it is true that he was arrested. “We are told that there are more suspects that are being investigated, people of interest and directly linked to the crime positively and we will await that work to continue to proceed.

The case has been postponed until June 9 for further investigation. The three men accused of the brutal murder of Hillary Gardee (28) appeared in the Nelspruit ...

“This office stands for the protection of women, young girls and boys. There is also video footage of Gardee in the Nelspruit CBD that will be looked at. This should not have happened, and no family should be exposed to such cruelty. A further two arrests were made on Saturday May 7 and Sunday May 8 in the Mbombela area. They are facing six counts of kidnapping, conspiracy to commit murder, murder, rape, possession of an unlicensed firearm and defeating the ends of justice. They abandoned their bail applications and have been remanded in custody until their next expected court appearance on June 9.

The case of three men accused of killing Hillary Gardee was on Monday postponed to June 9 for further investigation.

The child was later found unharmed close to their home. Sipho Lawrence Mkhatshwa, 39, Philemon Lukhele, 47, and Albert Nkala, 52, made a brief appearance at the Nelspruit magistrate’s court and refused bail. Hillary was laid to rest in Mbombela on Saturday following a moving funeral service at Church on the Hill in KaMagugu, Mbombela.

Sipho Mkhatshwa, Philemon Lukhele and Albert Gama appear in the Nelspruit magistrate's court in connection with the death of Hillary Gardee. They are charged ...

“The lodge where everything happened is next to her father and uncle's house. This after their legal representatives told the court that the three were in immense pain and needed medical care. Let's not be cowards and stop being scared,” she said. They said they were dissatisfied at how the proceedings were conducted. Our laws must be repealed,” Mente said. Our constitution must be changed.

According to the EFF, stated the murderers of Hillary Gardee; Mduduzi Nkala, Philemon Lukhele, and Sipho Mkhatshwa, have been opposed bail by the state as the ...

Information reads: "BREAKING: Three suspects in the Hillary Gardee murder case, appearing before the Nelspruit Magistrate Court. Lawrance Mkhatshwa, Philemon Lukhele, and Mduduzi Gama." The EFF wrote: "The accused in the Hillary Gardee case are Sipho Mkhatshwa, Philemon Lukhele and Mduduzi Nkala Philemon Lukhele, 47 was arrested together with Sipho Lawrence Mkhatshwa, 39 and Albert Mduduzi Gama, 52.

Three suspects appeared in the Mpumalanga magistrate court in connection with the murder of 28-year-old Hillary Gardee.

Three suspects appeared in the Mpumalanga magistrate’s court on Monday morning for the murder of Hillary Gardee, 28. “This office stands for the protection of women, young girls and boys and condemns in the strongest terms any acts of violence perpetrated against the vulnerable especially women and children and any acts of GBV+F,” provincial chief whip Fidel Mlombo said in a statement on Monday. Lukhele is an employee in the office of the chief whip in the Mpumalanga legislature and a member of the ruling ANC.

Philemon Lukhele (47), Sipho Lawrence Mkhatshwa (39) and Albert “Khabzela” Gama (52) appeared briefly in the Nelspruit Magistrates' Court on Monday.

Gardee’s body was found in a timber plantation near the tourist town of Sabie on Tuesday last week. Mlombo added he could not believe that Lukhele had been implicated in such a heinous crime. Lukhele studied at the University of the Witswatersrand and was an SRC president.

Hillary, 28, the daughter of former EFF secretary-general Godrich Gardee, was laid to rest at the weekend. Philemon Lukhele, 47, Albert Mduduzi Gama, 52, and ...

It was an additional charge of conspiracy to commit murder that revealed her abduction was planned as early as late January. The charge sheet presented to court stated the three men allegedly conspired to murder Gardee between January 22 and April 28, shortly before the IT graduate’s body was found outside Mbombela. She had been assaulted and shot in the head. The plot to murder Hillary Gardee was allegedly hatched months before her abduction while she was out shopping with her adopted daughter in Mbombela, Mpumalanga. Conspiracy to murder Hillary Gardee was ‘hatched months before death’ — charge sheet