Zimbabwean Serial Killer Confesses To Savagely Crushing Victims’ Heads With Stones

A ruthless Zimbabwean serial killer from Tswane has revealed at the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria today, the gruesome details of how he murdered the victims he kidnapped, despite having been paid the ransom by their families.

Wellington Kachidza, 27, pleaded guilty to multiple crimes including at least six murder charges, eight kidnappings, three rapes, robbery with aggravating circumstances and theft. The court accepted his plea and convicted him on 34 counts.

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Kachidza confessed that he would lure victims from work, lying to need help fetching a car in Eesterust because he did not have a driver’s licence. One classic instance was his merciless killing of Rendani Maphiri on October 8 2019.

“After the deceased knocked off from work we took a taxi to Eesterust and when we reached there, I convinced the deceased that the motor vehicle was on the other side of the mountain and we had to take a shortcut over the mountain.

“When we reached the top of the mountain near a reservoir I attacked the deceased and hit him with a rock on the head. The deceased fell to the ground and became dizzy. I instructed him to take out his cellphone and to call his sister to tell her he was kidnapped and I demanded a R5,000 ransom. About R2,000 was sent to the deceased’s cellphone and I later withdrew the money at an ATM,” he said.

“After the money was transferred I killed the deceased by [smashing] his head with a rock and left his body on the mountain,” he said cold-heartedly.

Kachidza went on to kill many other people using the same callous modus operandi, including on one Tebatso Mogoathlo.

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Mogoathlo’s aunt Mankitseng Magoro told TimesLIVE that they only found bones after paying the ransom. They had even borrowed the ransom money from friends.

Mogoathlo’s mother, Magdeline Mogoatlho, never healed from the brutal murder of her son. She died of a heart attack only three months after the Mogoathlo’s burial.

Wellington Kachidza’s case has been postponed until Wednesday for evidence in mitigation before sentencing.