Police spokesperson, Amanda Funani, confirms that a 40-year-old man, Nkululeko Moses Kraai, was sentenced to 40 years in jail in the North West High Court sitting in Klerksdorp on Tuesday. 

OFM News reported that Kraai was arrested after the naked body of the 44-year-old slain Isaac Dekote Tlhapi was discovered with multiple stab wounds along the Makwassie and Leeudoringstad Road in April 2019. 

In a police report, it was alleged that Tlhapi gave three men, including Kraai, a lift when leaving a local tavern prior to his kidnapping, robbery and murder. Police says Tlhapi's silver Nissan Qashqai, which also went missing, was found abandoned in Soweto, Gauteng, on 27 April - a day before Kraai's arrest in Delareyville.

Kraai was arrested on Sunday 28 April 2019, three days after Tlhapi went missing on April 25. Tlhapi's family reported him a missing person on April 26, 2019, a day after he went missing.

Police spokesperson Funani further says that a 23-year-old man, Tshepang Joseph Leteane, who was arrested alongside Kraai, turned a state witness and led the police to Kraai's arrest in Delareyville.

"He further took the police to a place along the Wolmaransstad/Leeudoringstad Road where Tlhapi’s body was discovered with multiple stab wounds.  

The accused, who has been behind bars ever since his arrest, was also declared unfit to possess a firearm in terms of Section 103 of the Firearms Control Act, 2000 (Act No. 60 of 2000)," she adds. 

Provincial Police Commissioner, Sello Kwena, welcomed the 40-year imprisonment sentence handed down to Kraai.

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