South African Ex-Police Officer Rosemary Ndlovu, Serving Six Life Terms, Gets 10 More Years for 2018 Murder Plot
A Kempton Park court sentenced Ndlovu and former colleague Nomsa Mudau to 10 years each for inciting the murder of Mudau's husband for insurance money.
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Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu, a former South African police officer already serving six life terms for murdering five relatives and her partner, was sentenced on October 14, 2026, to 10 more years in prison for a 2018 plot to have a man killed.
A court in Kempton Park, in Gauteng, sentenced Ndlovu and her former police colleague Nomsa Mudau to 10 years' direct imprisonment each for incitement to commit murder, the alternative charge the court found proven. The two women were convicted on May 20, 2026; sentencing had first been set for July 15. Ndlovu's new term runs concurrently with the life sentences she is already serving, according to reports. The reports did not name the presiding officer.
The plot targeted Justice Mudau, who was then Nomsa Mudau's husband, in 2018, before Ndlovu's arrest in the murder case. Both women were serving police officers at the time. According to the prosecution, Ndlovu put Mudau in touch with men to carry out the killing, and Mudau planned to pay them from the insurance benefits she expected after her husband's death. The men warned Justice Mudau instead, the prosecution said, and he went to the police; both women were arrested. He was not harmed.
In October 2021 the High Court sitting at Palm Ridge, under Judge Ramarumo Monama, convicted Ndlovu of six murders committed between 2012 and 2018: her cousin Witness Madala Homu, her sister Audrey Somisa Ndlovu, her partner Maurice Mabasa, her niece Zanele Motha and her nephews Mayeni Mashaba and Brilliant Mashego. On November 5, 2021, she was sentenced to six life terms; the National Prosecuting Authority records her full sentence as six life terms plus 135 years. The authority says she claimed R1,384,959 in insurance benefits on her victims.
Reports name the court as either the Kempton Park Magistrate's Court or the Kempton Park Regional Court. No statement on the 2026 conviction or sentence from the National Prosecuting Authority or the police could be found, so this account rests on South African news reports quoting the prosecution. Reports differ on the non-life part of her 2021 sentence; the figure given here is the authority's own.
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