An Eastern Cape man who ran an industrial psychology practice despite not being qualified has been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering his 60-year-old mother, as well as fraud, related to the bogus practice.
Nathaniel Molefe Kosie was also sentenced in the Sterkspruit Regional Court to 15 years for robbery with aggravating circumstances, and seven years for defeating the administration of justice, reports News24.
On 20 August 2018, Kosie called the police after claiming to have found his mother dead on her bedroom floor in Sterkspruit. The officers found her tied up, with an open wound on the back of her skull, and subsequently found a spade suspected to be the weapon. Kosie said his mother’s TV and car were missing. The car was found abandoned at a bus rank the next day, with the TV in the boot, and a rope similar to the one used to tie up the woman.
Eastern Cape National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) regional spokesperson Luxolo Tyali said investigations also revealed that the day before Kosie called police to report his mother’s death, he had taken his receptionist to a purported after-hours consultation.
They drove to Colville and Kosie left the receptionist in the car while he went to his supposed client, returning two hours later in his mother’s vehicle. The receptionist was told to follow him home in his car.
“When the receptionist heard about his boss’s mother’s death, and that the car had been stolen, he told the police what had happened. Kosie’s fingerprints were found on the TV in the boot of the car,” Tyali said.
It was subsequently discovered that he had also been conducting business as an industrial psychologist without any qualifications, and he was then charged with fraud.
He was sentenced to seven years for the fraud, to be served concurrently with his other sentences.
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