{"id":86057,"date":"2018-10-16T09:08:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T07:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=86057"},"modified":"2018-10-17T07:32:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T05:32:17","slug":"south-african-woman-murdered-mozambique-media-claims-husbands-arrest-false","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2018\/10\/16\/south-african-woman-murdered-mozambique-media-claims-husbands-arrest-false\/","title":{"rendered":"South African woman murdered in Mozambique – media claims of husband\u2019s arrest false"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was reported on Tuesday (today), that Faan Prinsloo was arrested on either 4 or 5 October and has been denied bail after the murder of his wife Petro (50) in Matola<\/a>\u00a0in Maputo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, the Middelburg Observer spoke to Mr Prinsloo last week, on Thursday 11 October, and published his interview in the Friday 12 October edition.<\/p>\n

This\u00a0morning (Tuesday),\u00a0www.mobserver.co.za<\/b>\u00a0managed to get hold of Mr Prinsloo again, who laughingly confirmed that he has not been arrested, despite media reports to the contrary.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey cannot arrest me, no matter how much they want to,\u201d Mr Prinsloo said.<\/p>\n

It was reported in the\u00a0Middelburg Observer<\/i>\u00a0that Petro Prinsloo was killed on Thursday 27 September. She was discovered by her domestic worker.<\/p>\n

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The Middelburg Observer reported that family of Mrs Prinsloo, living in Middelburg, said\u00a0that on that fateful day, Mr Prinsloo left for work at around 06:30 as per usual. Mrs Prinsloo spoke to her niece over the phone at the time when her husband left and to her son at around 07:00 that morning. Her domestic worker discovered her body at 07:30.<\/p>\n

Mr Prinsloo rushed home from his place of work after being informed of his wife\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n

Mr Prinsloo\u2019s business partner, Aida Mahomade and a former employee Alsino (surname unknown) were arrested on the same day Mrs Prinsloo’s body was found.<\/p>\n

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A screenshot of the interview Aida Mahomade granted with a Mozambican television channel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mrs Mahomade lived in the same complex as the Prinsloo couple. Her arrest follows an investigation by Mozambican police. It was found that Mrs Mahomade and Alsino have been planning the murder for two months, communicating via Mrs Mahomade\u2019s domestic worker\u2019s cellphone.<\/p>\n

Video footage from security cameras at the complex, shows how Mrs Mahomade sends her domestic worker to run errands, before she switches off the power to bypass the security cameras at the gate and the Prinsloo homestead.<\/p>\n

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She later admitted to police that she allowed Alsino access to the property. Alsino was instructed to drown Mrs Prinsloo in the pool but bashed her head against the floor and against a step leading to the bedroom, until she died. She was overpowered whilst eating breakfast in the kitchen.<\/p>\n

Mr Prinsloo said that it seemed like the scene was tampered with, with Mrs Prinsloo\u2019s body being placed in an awkward position and some of the blood on the scene being cleaned.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were sheets with blood on the scene. But the sheets do not belong to us. I don\u2019t know where it came from,\u201d Mr Prinsloo said.<\/p>\n

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A screenshot of Alsino during his interview on a Mozambican television channel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Both Mrs Mahomade and Alsino admitted the above to police in a statement, Mr Prinsloo said.<\/p>\n

In an unexpected twist, the two arrested suspects summoned a Mozambican television channel to prison and admitted to the murder on television. Mrs Mahomade added that she and Mr Prinsloo were having an affair and that she killed Mrs Prinsloo because she had found out about it and threatened her husband with divorce.<\/p>\n

The interview was repoted on by www.mobserver.co.za\u2019s sister publication, Lowvelder<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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She also claimed that she promised Alsino R25 000 (100 000 meticais) for the murder and that Mr Prinsloo was working away from home on the island Santa Maria.<\/p>\n

Mr Prinsloo told the\u00a0Middelburg Observer<\/i>\u00a0that her claim of an affair is an outright lie and that her version on television was laced with inaccuracies. He said that he suspects his wife was killed in order to frame him for the murder.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I was arrested and convicted of murder, it would get me out of the way so Aida can take over the business,\u201d Mr Prinsloo said.<\/p>\n

He said that her sudden claim of an affair was aimed at pulling him down with her.<\/p>\n

A source told the\u00a0Middelburg Observer<\/i>\u00a0that Mrs Prinsloo previously discovered \u2018black magic\u2019 powder in her house and suspected that someone was trying to bewitch her. She was an avid Christian. On the day of Mrs Prinsloo’s murder, a cross she wore around her neck was found ripped off and lying in a pool of blood. Police allegedly discovered the same black magic powder Mrs Prinsloo found, in Mrs Mahomade’s house after her arrest.<\/p>\n

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The husband of a South African woman murdered in Mozambique has not been arrested as reported by other media platforms.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5031,"featured_media":86058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[14197,14195,6490,14196,9558,14194,4547,14192,14199,14191,14198,14193],"class_list":["post-86057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-aida-mahomade","tag-crime-in-mozambique","tag-fake-news","tag-matola","tag-moz","tag-moz-crime","tag-mozambique","tag-murdered-in-mozambique","tag-news-24-mozambique","tag-petro-prinsloo","tag-sa-man-allegedly-paid-mistress-to-have-his-wife-killed-in-mozambique","tag-south-african-killed-in-moz"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["aida mahomade","crime in mozambique","Fake news","matola","moz","moz crime","mozambique","murdered in mozambique","news 24 mozambique","petro prinsloo","SA man allegedly paid mistress to have his wife killed in Mozambique","south african killed in moz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5031"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}