I did not plan to kill: Jub Jub

But family members of the dead and injured children, sitting in the gallery cursed and insulted Maarohanye, saying: “Who killed the children, the trees. Where are the children now? You killer. You have no shame.”
Maarohanye and Themba Tshabalala are on trial on four counts of murder, two of attempted murder, driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol and reckless and negligent driving.

They are alleged to have drag raced in their Mini Coopers while high and drunk on Mdlalose Street in Protea, Soweto, on 8 March last year.
After a brief break Maarohanye said: “When the accident took place a part of me died. A lot of people were saddened. It is a pity nobody has thought of what I had to deal with. It does not sit well with me that a year and some months after it happened I have not had the privilege to sit with the (victims) families, the way I was brought up to do.”

Maarohanye said Tshabalala and he were not friends. He said he knew Tshabalala for about three years because he transported one of the artistes signed to Maarohanye’s music label.
Maarohanye said on the day of the accident he had met Tshabalala in Naturena, southern Johannesburg, at a stop sign.
Maarohanye said he was travelling with a friend and his artiste to Glenridge, Soweto, where his father owns a butchery. They were planning to attend a weekly Sunday music event at the venue and were having a meeting.

He said his friend said he had sound equipment and they had left the butchery to go view the equipment.
“I was trying to take a short cut and got lost. I was driving around in circles and Tshabalala stopped alongside me in his blue Mini Cooper at a stop sign and offered to show me the way,” he said.

Shortly after they drove off the accident happened.
Maarohanye said he blacked out in the accident. He said his vehicle had been enhanced and if he were drag racing he would easily have driven at a faster speed than 160km/h.

He said as much as one could get secondary smoke inhalation from sitting near someone who was smoking, the drugs might have gotten into his system in a similar manner as the music industry was rife with drug intake.—Sowetan.