Johannesburg - Hip Hop artist Nkululeko ‘Flabba’ Habedi’s lover who stands accused of stabbing him to death, on Tuesday told the Randburg Magistrate’s Court they had fought over money before his death.
Sindi Manqele said Habedi had told her she was trying to fish for men and called her a gold digger.
“He was saying ‘because things aren’t going ok for me financially you want to get other men’,” Manqele said.
Manqele said she pointed out that she would not have been with him if she had wanted a rich man.
Earlier on Tuesday, Manqele’s lawyer Norman Makhubela asked her if she was aware of the financial difficulty Habedi was experiencing at the time.
“Yes, I was,” Manqele said.
Manqele said she had lent R200 to Habedi for petrol. She added that she bought anything else they needed and did not mind doing this.
Earlier, she told the court that on the night of his death, she had thought Habedi was jealous of her talking to other men. She said he had snatched her phone from her and she tried to get it back from him.
“I was going for his hands and I was standing on the pavement and missed my step, that’s how I sprained my ankle.”
Manqele said Habedi believed that if he gave her the phone she would leave and come back to the party once he had left.
“When we got to the car he gave me back my phone and I sat in the back and didn’t talk to him,” Manqele said.
Manqele stated that she was reluctant to go to his car but did it because she wanted her phone back.
“He said to (his friend Nkululeko) Chauke: ‘Imagine this guy saying that I must wait so that he can talk to my girlfriend,’ and (that) he had a good mind to go beat him up,” Manqele said.
Manqele said Chauke had told Habedi to calm down because he did not want to be in the Daily Sun the next day.Johannesburg
Manqele said on their way home in the vehicle, Habedi continued to say that she was disrespectful.
“He said I was being disrespectful because of his financial situation,” Manqele said.
“He went on, and after sometime I kept quiet.”
She stated that she called her cousins Thembela and Nomfundo while they were on their way to Alexandra.
Manqele said she made screen shots to prove that she had made calls to the various people she mentioned.
Prints of the screen shots of those calls were presented to the court and would be addressed in detail on Wednesday as the court case continues.
Manqele has pleaded not guilty and instead claimed she was defending herself from her violent lover when she stabbed him at his home on March 9.
Habedi, a member of hip-hop group Skwatta Kamp, was stabbed to death at his home in Alexandra in March.
The popular musician was knifed in the chest.
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