News24 reports that David Ngwenya, who has been charged with the murder of Eskom employee Thembisile Yende, was due to appear on Wednesday in the Springs Magistrate's Court.  

Ngwenya, a 43-year-old technician at Eskom, is accused of injecting his lover, Yende, with a substance before striking her on the head with a crowbar and subsequently suffocating and strangling her after a struggle in May.  He allegedly killed Yende after he suspected that she would "spill the beans" on his alleged involvement in a copper cable theft syndicate.  Yende’s body was found in an office at the isolated Eskom Pietersboth substation in Springs, Ekurhuleni, after Eskom workers detected a putrid smell more than a week after she had been reported missing.  At Ngwenya's last court appearance in September, his lawyer said DNA results would exonerate his client.

• Read this report by Iavan Pijoos and Alex Mitchley in full at News24
• See too, Defence adamant DNA will exonerate Thembisile Yende murder accused, at News24

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