Alleged Olievenhoutbosch serial killer Richard Jabulani Nyauza told a police officer his victims did not deserve to live because a woman had given him Aids.
Pretoria High Court Judge John Murphy ruled on Friday that such statements were admissible as evidence and that Nyauza had made them freely and voluntarily while in sound and sober senses.
"He said he had sex with the women and thereafter became angry because he was of the opinion that a woman had given him Aids and that they did not deserve to live," the statement noted.
This emerged from two pointing-out statements made by Nyauza to police after his arrest in September last year.
This was despite Nyauza's claims that he was either "unconscious" or "not of sound mind" after a police officer had forced him to take "strange" HIV medication.
"When you're bound hands and legs, the one who fastened you has dominion and control over you and he can do with you whatever he wants... It was HIV-related medicine because I'm HIV positive... I was duty bound to take the medication in the mornings," he said.
He repeatedly claimed he could not remember a thing thereafter, until waking up in the middle of the night puking and feeling very ill. He also said he could not remember a thing until he woke up in hospital and must have been "manipulated" and "posed" by police for the pointing-out photos. These showed a wide-awake Nyauza pointing out various scenes.
According to Nyauza an Indian police officer and other police officers had entered his cell after his arrest. They had pointed to a "gigantic" Indian man and told him the giant would be his executioner if he did not co-operate.
The court heard that Nyauza had pointed out several scenes to police where he claimed he had left the bodies of some of his victims. He also said there were more, but he could not remember them all.
In one of the statements Nyauza told police how he had dumped a woman's body after murdering her elsewhere. He had killed her by hitting her with a rock and kicking her.
He also told police how he had stabbed other women with a screwdriver.
He also told police that he had been paid by another man to murder one of his victims and told them he had killed a woman and dumped her in the same area just before his arrest.
Nyauza has denied guilt to 24 charges, ranging from 16 of murder to charges of rape, robbery and attempted murder.
The first five bodies were discovered in 2002 in the veld near Olievenhoutbosch. Eleven more bodies were discovered near the Rossway quarry in 2006.
The court heard evidence that Nyauza had previously been in jail for allegedly raping a woman. He was released in 2005 after being acquitted. - Sapa