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South African lawyer who mourned his girlfriend on social media sentenced to life imprisonment for killing her and burning her body inside car

A South African attorney has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the m8rder of his girlfriend and burning her in her car in Johannesburg.

The South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg sentenced Thubelihle Sbonakaliso Mpisi on Tuesday, August 4, 2026.

Mpisi was convicted of the m8rder of Mahlako Malebo Rabalao, as well as malicious injury to property and defeating the administration of justice.

Mpisi has been in custody since his arrest on July 28, 2023, after abandoning his bail application.

Mahlako Malebo Rabalao’s charred remains were found in her Mercedes-Benz on March 9, 2023, near her home in Midrand.

NPA spokesperson Magaboke Mohlatlole
said that during the trial, Senior State Advocate Michelle Bayat argued that although medical experts were unable to determine the exact cause of d3ath because of the extensive burning of the body, the evidence established beyond reasonable doubt that Rabalao had died before the fire was started.

The court accepted the State’s case, which relied on circumstantial evidence, including cellphone records, forensic evidence, expert testimony and Mpisi’s conduct before and after the incident.

Prosecutors successfully argued that Mpisi m8rdered Rabalao before setting her body and vehicle alight in an attempt to destroy evidence and conceal the crime.

Evidence before the court also revealed that the pair had been involved in an intimate relationship.

Rabalao had reportedly told relatives and friends that she intended ending the relationship and moving out of the home she shared with Mpisi before she was k!lled.

Rabalao, an IT specialist, was about to turn 27 when she was k!lled.

She was k!lled while planning to move out of an apartment she shared with Mpisi.

Mpisi, who was 30 at the time, was arrested in KwaZulu-Natal after four months of investigation.

Before his arrest, Mpisi went on social media to express his shock and pain at the d8ath of the mother of his three-year-old son.

Flangelo12:
Na this oyinbo man be Thubelihle Sbonakaliso Mpisi?

Abi na albino?

TemplarLandry:
These Southy people are mostly demon-possessed.

AVECDEO:
SA can’t like anyone. They can’t even live with their love without putting her life to an end,talkless of tolerating a fellow African.

This people are crude and pathetic.

Bahamas95:
These girls never learn.

When responsible guys ask them out they turn them down with the excuse "he's too gentle for my liking"

See wetin rugged man don do her now.

LordIsaac:
All that glitters is not gold; but nay, they will never hear!
And please, dear men, if you are tired of them, do not kill them, just leave...I am appealing on their behalf.

Bahamas95:
These girls never learn.

When responsible guys ask them out they turn them down with the excuse "he's too gentle for my liking"


See wetin rugged man don do her now.

Flangelo12:
Na this oyinbo man be Thubelihle Sbonakaliso Mpisi?

Abi na albino?

Flangelo12:
Na this oyinbo man be Thubelihle Sbonakaliso Mpisi?

Abi na albino?