The killings began at dusk on May 17, 1929, when a storekeeper named Suliman Ismail Kharva was shot dead in his shop in the Loskop district of Natal. Over the following seven years the same pattern recurred: a small trading store in a remote area, the storekeeper shot at closing time, the till and the stock taken. The dead included Hassan Mia Armoordeen, Mohamed Ebrahim Motala, and Ismail Hajat with his assistant Hassan Mayet. Those named in the record are Suliman Ismail Kharva, Hassan Mia Armoordeen, Mohamed Ebrahim Motala, Ismail Hajat, his assistant Hassan Mayet and a servant, Nkunzana Mazibuko.
The victims were Indian traders running isolated country stores in colonial Natal, a group with little protection and, in the administration of the time, little priority. The case became known as the Loskop murders, and the length of it, seven years, six dead, one district, is what the South African accounts fix on. He is recorded as the Loskop Killer, after the district.
Msundwana was arrested on August 10, 1936, and he was tried, convicted and hanged in 1937.
The accessible sourcing is South African historical writing on the case rather than contemporary court records, and the details of the trial are not available. The entry records what the sources agree on: the pattern of the killings, the arrest date, and the execution.