Members of Khayelitsha's Gupta gang handed 14 life sentences

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The Western Cape High Court has sentenced two members of the notorious Gupta gang in Khayelitsha to 14 life sentences following a mass murder at a local shebeen more than four years ago.

Gcinithemba Beja and Fundile Maseti returned to court this week after Judge Daniel Thulare determined that they were responsible for the March 8, 2020 shooting.

According to court records, the night before the murders, Ntandazo Mthera, the tavern owner, was hosting a birthday party with relatives when four armed men arrived and opened fire, killing him and six others. He went on to tell the court that on the night of the murders, he saw Mthera running home with a firearm and bleeding, and as he assisted him, gunshots rang out. This is when the witness claims he saw Beja, who claimed to have been shot by Mthera.

 

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