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A former Rustenburg mayor and his bodyguard have been found guilty of killing corruption and fraud whistle-blower and town councillor Moss Phakoe three years ago.

Delivering his judgment in the Mafikeng High Court, sitting in Rustenburg on Monday, Judge Rodney Hendricks said he had accepted witness testimony that Matthew Wolmarans, 43, the current Speaker for the Rustenburg municipality, had hired his mayoral bodyguard, Enoch Matshaba, 40, to kill Phakoe, 52.

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