A 46-year-old South African woman, Nonkululeko Ngwabe, has been convicted and sentenced to 22 years imprisonment by Pietermaritzburg High Court.
Ngwabe was this week found guilty of the murder of her husband, warrant officer Thulani Ngwabe, said Hawks spokesperson Capt, Simphiwe Mhlongo.
Hawks are South Africa’s Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation which targets organized crime, economic crime, corruption, and other serious crime.
According to SAPS spokesperson, Colonel Thembeka Mbele, on 3 November 2019, a lifeless body of Ngwabe, 51, who was stationed at Margate Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit, was found on railway lines near Port Shepstone beach with multiple stab wounds in November 2019.
Ngwabe was sentenced in Pietermaritzburg High Court in Kwazulu-Natal on Monday, June 7.
She conspired with three men to kill her husband, Warrant Officer Thulani Ngwabe on November 3, 2019.
A case of murder was reported at Port Shepstone police station and the case docket was allocated to Hawks members from Port Shepstone Serious Organised Crime unit for intensive investigation.
Hawks members first arrested his wife in December 2019. Her apprehension led to the information about her accomplices she allegedly hired to kill her husband.
The three accused, Sthembiso Mbona (25), Nhlakanipho Ndovela (23) and Saziso Khambule (25) were brought to book.
They were arrested in Murchison area near Port Shepstone in December 2019 and were also charged for murder.
All accused appeared in Port Shepstone Magistrate’s Court several times and were remanded in custody till to date as their bail was successfully opposed.
The case of three men was then transferred to Pietermaritzburg High Court for trial and it was postponed to June 18, 2021.
