Murder accused William Nkuna had threatened to kill missing police Constable Frances Rasuge and himself, her mother told the circuit court sitting in Garankuwa on Wednesday.
Answering questions from the state, Caroline Rasuge said she had called Nkuna on January 1, last year, asking him to leave her daughter alone, as they had been fighting.
”I asked Willy [Nkuna] to go away from Nyadi [Frances],” she said. ”He said to me, ‘I will kill her and afterwards I will kill myself.”’
Rasuge’s mother said she asked Nkuna why he would do such a thing, as he was a married man with children.
”Willy told me it didn’t matter. He said his wife would stay behind and look after the children.”
She said Nkuna told her ”you’re not being unfair”, and hung up the phone.
Rasuge’s mother said she has not spoken to Nkuna since.
Under cross-examination from defence attorney Post Moloto, she said she had no knowledge that her daughter was in a relationship with either a man called Abner Ramasodi or police Captain Simon Letseka.
Moloto suggested these relationships had caused friction in Rasuge’s relationship with Nkuna.
Moloto had earlier put it to Rasuge’s twin sister, Wilhelmina, that her sister’s alleged relationship with Letseka had endangered Nkuna’s life.
”I put it to you that the relationship between Captain Letseka and Frances was so dangerous [to Nkuna] that it involved a hit man.”
Wilhelmina denied any knowledge of a romantic relationship between her sister and Letseka. — Sapa