In the weeks following the brutal murder of traditional healer Anele Hoyana on the Geluksdal farm in Gonubie, more details have come to light that paints a terrifying picture of his killer, East London trainee sangoma, Fritz “Majeke” Joubert.

Joubert was caught on camera talking about ‘doing God’s work’ before he went to Hoyana’s dwelling on the farm. He allegedly forced Kwelerha farmer Sabelo Ngaka to film his erratic behaviour in the hours before he bludgeoned Hoyana to death, and was later shot and killed by police.

We also learned that Joubert had once been a policeman, before he was fired for what a source described as his “connection to too many deaths”.

Then, last year, he threatened a teenager with a gun in a KFC parking lot. The teen, Mohammed Allarakha, spoke to TimesLIVE.

“I am glad that he’s dead, I feel like people will be safer now,” Allarakha said this week.

“We had gone to KFC and my cousin had gone inside to order,” he said.

“Joubert was inside and told her she was going to make the place stink.

“She made a comment back, and he pushed her. When I confronted him outside, he called me a c**lie,” Allarakha  said.

“He parked me in and walked over to my window. He cocked the gun and put it to my chest and took the keys.”

Allarakha laid charges and Joubert was arrested and detained overnight. He was due in court next month to face charges of crimen injuria.

But, claims a friend of Joubert – he was supposedly not a racist. Here’s HeraldLIVE.

“There was only one person like Fritz Joubert. If you got on his wrong side, ore he didn’t like you, it doesn’t matter if you are pink, or purple, or white colour, he was going to m*** you!

“He was fricken good, he was born with a talent for violence, he had a mindset that nobody can beat him.”

Throughout the course of his life, Joubert rampaged through the world. He once beat up a DJ for not playing his favourite song. He threatened patrons in bars, and he was banned from a local pub for firing a gun in the streets outside.

At the Border Stock Racing Club, the chair, Shawn Victor described him as “the devil’s right hand”.

Back to his former friend who said there was another side to Joubert, though.

“He looked after a lot of people. All his workers, he took good care of them when it was still good, but when it was bad, he would use and abuse them.”

He said Joubert, who used to own one of the biggest Eskom subcontractor companies in southern Africa, had hit rock bottom and “lost his mind”.

That much is evident.

Joubert had resorted to drug use after divorcing his wife, the mother of his three children, around three years ago.

Whatever the reasons, his attack on Hoyana didn’t come out of anywhere.

It was only a matter of time before this madman took somebody’s life, and it’s a tragedy that it had to be a father of two in such brutal circumstances.

[sources:timeslive&heraldlive]