Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu was a police sergeant in Tembisa, east of Johannesburg, when she was arrested in March 2018. Over the previous six years six people close to her had died violently: a cousin, her sister, her live-in partner, a niece and two nephews. On each of them she held life or funeral insurance, much of it taken out without their knowledge, and the payouts she collected came to about R1.4 million.
She was caught because a man she had asked to kill her sister Joyce and Joyce's five children went to the police instead. An undercover officer rode with her to her sister's home in Mpumalanga and recorded her explaining how she wanted it done. In October 2021 the Gauteng High Court, sitting at Palm Ridge, found her guilty of all six murders, and in November 2021 it sentenced her to six life terms. She has never admitted the killings. In 2026 she was convicted again, this time of inciting the murder of a former colleague's husband, a plot from early 2018 that failed because the men hired for it warned him.
Ndlovu came from the Bushbuckridge area of Mpumalanga, a rural district where her mother, Maria Mushwana, and her sister Joyce still live. The Sunday Times, which spoke to relatives and neighbors there in 2021, reported that she had made a life for herself away from Bushbuckridge and was seen as the "golden" member of the family, the one who had done well. She joined the police in 2008, the paper reported, and was a sergeant when she was arrested. She was later dismissed from the service. Years earlier, after joining the police, she had won a car in a competition.
She worked at Tembisa South police station. Colonel Nthipe Boloka, its station commander, later told TimesLIVE that she missed four or five days of work a month, which he linked to debts she owed to loan sharks. Former colleagues described her to the Sowetan as generous and apparently well off, someone who often bought them lunch, and as a regular gambler who liked slot machines. A Bushbuckridge resident told SABC News that she had gone to Johannesburg to make money and spent time in casinos.
Her personal life had been marked by early loss. According to evidence presented by a state criminologist at sentencing and reported by TimesLIVE, she began dating at 18 and married a security guard who later fell ill and died; the Sunday Times dated his death to 2004. Their son died at 13 while visiting her in Johannesburg. She later had a daughter with Maurice Mabasa, and that child died in 2017, not quite three years old. None of these deaths led to any charge. They are discussed in the section on unproven claims below.
The pattern that the prosecution laid out at trial was the same each time. Ndlovu took out life and funeral policies on a relative or on her partner, often several policies with different insurers, and named herself as the beneficiary. Many of the people insured did not know about the cover. To keep costs down she sometimes listed a cousin or her partner as her spouse, since several policies covered a spouse for free, and she described a nephew as her son. Some policies paid double if the death was accidental or unnatural, and every person she had insured, the court heard, died that way.
Insurance staff and fraud analysts took the court through the policies and claims, and a voice expert testified that the caller on a recorded call to an insurer, who had posed as her sister to take out a life policy, was Ndlovu. Police found piles of identity documents and policy papers when they searched her home after her arrest. The investigating officer, Sergeant Keshi Benneth Mabunda, told TimesLIVE that his own suspicions had begun when he saw her walk into an office opposite his carrying a pile of insurance policies that needed signatures for claims.
Two weeks before her partner was killed, the state said, she telephoned an insurer to check that his premiums were up to date. She told the court that she insured relatives because most of them were unemployed and she did not want to be left with the cost of their funerals, as had happened to the family before.
The first of the six was her cousin, Witness Madala Homu, the only child of Lucy Mushwana. In March 2012 he was attacked on his way home from work, and his body was found dumped in the Johannesburg area with head injuries. Ndlovu had listed him on her policy documents as her spouse, which meant she paid nothing for his cover, and she collected more than R131,000 after his death. His sister, Eva, testified that Ndlovu contributed only R200 toward his burial. Ndlovu blamed the insurer for the spouse entry; the state rejected that explanation. At the sentencing hearing in 2021, Lucy Mushwana told the court she could not forgive the woman who had killed her only child.
Audrey Somisa Ndlovu was Rosemary's sister and the mother of a son, Brilliant. She worked as a security guard earning R2,700 a month and added to her income by selling Tupperware and perfume. She rented a room in Tembisa.
The state's account of her death, presented at trial, was that Rosemary visited her on June 25, 2013, introduced herself to a neighbor and shared a meal with her; Audrey made tea and went out to buy bread and atchar, and the state said the tea was laced with a poisonous substance. Rosemary, the state said, returned the next day, found her sister still alive, strangled her, locked the security gate and left. Afterward she told neighbors she could not reach Audrey and feared the worst. Neighbors, including Audrey's boyfriend, cut through the burglar bars and found her under a blanket. She had been dead for some time.
While police were at the scene, the state said, Rosemary knocked over two cups and put them in a basin of water outside the room, despite being warned not to touch anything. Prosecutors said they were the cups used for the tea. She testified that she had knocked them over by accident while she was crying, that she did not know the basin held water, and that she was only tidying up; the state pointed out that she had changed her account of where the cups had stood. The count of defeating the ends of justice on which she was later convicted concerned this scene.
Policies on Audrey's life paid Rosemary more than R717,000; SABC News reported the figure as R717,421.20. The state argued that Audrey could not have afforded the policies on her salary. Rosemary did not dispute the amount but said she had never added it up, and she denied impersonating her sister on the insurer's recording, saying their voices were very alike. She told the court at sentencing that she had paid for Audrey's funeral and tombstone and supported her children.
Yingwani Maurice Mabasa worked as a security officer at the United States embassy in Pretoria. Ndlovu told the court they started dating in 2011 and moved in together in 2012, living in Clayville near Olifantsfontein. They had a daughter. His brother, Justice Mabasa, described the relationship as rocky.
Ndlovu testified that she took out 16 policies on him, worth more than R400,000; the first was opened in 2011 and the last on June 1, 2015, four months before his death. SABC News reported that one policy was taken out on August 1, 2015. Evidence at the trial was that there had been earlier attempts on his life: in one a hired gunman's firearm jammed, and in another he escaped a fire at the couple's rented home.
On October 13, 2015, by Ndlovu's account, he left for work in the morning. He did not come home after his night shift. She said she called his two phones and his brother, then went to Olifantsfontein police station to report him missing, and was told there that a man's body had been found carrying his cards. He had been stabbed about 80 times, according to TimesLIVE and the Sowetan, and his body had been dumped near Olifantsfontein police station. His valuables had not been taken. She broke down while describing his death in the witness box, the first time she had done so at the trial.
She collected more than R416,000 on his life and gave R40,000 toward his funeral. One insurer refused to pay because a criminal case had been opened; others queried her description of him as her spouse. Justice Mabasa told reporters that he had not suspected her until insurance companies called to check whether she was his brother's wife. He said he wanted to know where his brother had really died, and that an apology would not be enough.
Sergeant Mabunda, then acting station commander at Olifantsfontein, began investigating in 2015, the year Mabasa died there, according to Sunday World. He told TimesLIVE that he sometimes put the file aside for two or three months but kept coming back to it.
Zanele Motha, Ndlovu's niece, was a young mother of three. Her partner, Jabu Nhlapo, said at sentencing that he had always suspected Ndlovu, who had tried to take the children after Zanele died; he refused and is raising them himself. He had questioned why Ndlovu suddenly wanted to insure Zanele, since the two were not close.
In June 2016 Zanele was staying with Ndlovu in Clayville. On June 14 a doctor at Tembisa Hospital, Ipeleng Nku, examined her after she said she had been knocked down by a bicycle. The doctor found two abrasions on her face, X-rays showed nothing else, and she was discharged. Ndlovu took her home. Late the next day Ndlovu drove her to a private hospital in Kempton Park, where she was declared dead on arrival. The post-mortem found four broken ribs and liver damage. Nku told the court she would not have missed injuries so severe, because the patient would have been in great pain, and that they had most likely been inflicted after discharge. The indictment, as reported, described Zanele as having been struck by a car in Kempton Park.
Under cross-examination Ndlovu suggested that Zanele might have fallen in the bathroom, or that the hospital had missed something. Asked by the prosecutor why she had not left her niece to die if she wanted her dead, she answered that if that had been her aim, she would have left her in the house. She collected almost R120,000 from three policies in Zanele's name, gave the family about R60,000 and kept the rest, which she said was for a tombstone unveiling.
Mayeni Mashaba was Zanele's brother. In April 2017, on the day he had arranged to meet Ndlovu in Daveyton, he was killed, and his body was found dumped near Olifantsfontein. The Sowetan and Sunday Times reported major head injuries; The Citizen reported a gunshot wound to the head and said his body was found along Delmas Road. Phone records placed Ndlovu with him around the time of his death. She held two funeral policies on him but told the court she never claimed on them, and she did not explain why.
Brilliant Mashego was Audrey's son. After his mother's death he was raised by his paternal grandmother, Sharlene Mashego, who now looks after his own young child. By early 2018, the state said, he had learned that his aunt had collected a large sum after his mother died, and he wanted money. Ndlovu befriended him and promised to help him find work.
On January 22, 2018, he told his grandmother he was going to Nelspruit (Mbombela) for a day or two to meet Ndlovu and sign documents. His cousins testified that he took her calls in secret and that she told him to move away when others were near. Text messages sent from his phone that night and the next morning said he had gone to look for work and then that he was in Komatipoort; a cousin told the court the wording did not sound like him. He was found the next morning by a passer-by at a marketplace in Dwarsloop, near Bushbuckridge, with severe head wounds.
Ndlovu's account was that she and Brilliant had traveled together between Bushbuckridge and Johannesburg, by taxi and by hitchhiking, and that she left him late at night at a filling station in Dwarsloop, from which he chose to walk to his grandmother's home. She said she then left with a man she called a "side boyfriend," a courier driver whose address and number she said she did not know. Her own bail affidavit had given a different reason for being in Bushbuckridge, the prosecutor pointed out. Her mother, testifying for the defense, said Rosemary had been in Johannesburg in the days before Brilliant's death and only came home the day before his funeral, contradicting her daughter. "The deceased was found where you left him," the prosecutor put to her. A police cellphone expert told the court their phones had used the same towers around the time of his death. Ndlovu admitted insuring Brilliant, describing him to the agent as her son because he called her mother, but she never received a payout on him. At the funeral, his grandmother said, Ndlovu stood apart from the mourners.
The men who brought the case down came from Ndlovu's police work. Years earlier she had arrested a man, identified here as N.K., on a firearm charge that was later withdrawn. They met again in 2017, he testified, and she asked him to get rid of a relative living in Phomolong, Tembisa, who she said wanted her fired. He recruited two other men, L.M. and J.M. They were promised R15,000 and given a few hundred rand, but they pretended they could not get into the house and nothing was done. Ndlovu then proposed drugging the woman in Kempton Park and having her strangled. The men talked her out of it. The relative survived and was warned by police after Ndlovu's arrest.
In February 2018, according to evidence at the trial, Ndlovu paid L.M. R2,600 to kill her mother, Maria Mushwana, in Bushbuckridge. He went to the house, saw an elderly, frail woman, asked her for a glass of water and left. Mushwana, who was about 80, denied that anyone had come to her home and testified for her daughter. The court nonetheless convicted Ndlovu of attempting to murder her.
Around the same time, Ndlovu was also involved with a former police colleague, Nomsa Mudau, who wanted her husband, Justice Mudau, killed. Ndlovu introduced Mudau to the same men. They met her in Tembisa, and a shooting at the couple's home was planned for February 28, 2018. Instead, the men warned Justice Mudau. He opened a case. That plot led to a separate trial years later, described below.
About a week later, in early March 2018, Ndlovu asked N.K. to kill her sister Joyce and Joyce's five children by setting their house in Bushbuckridge on fire while they slept. The youngest child was five months old. N.K. went to the police at Tembisa South. He later said he was troubled that she did not mind the children dying. Colonel Boloka was the first officer told, and he became central to the arrest.
Police arranged a sting. An undercover officer joined the men posing as an accomplice, and a camera was hidden in the car. On March 5, according to The Citizen, Ndlovu booked herself into Life Carstenhof Hospital in Midrand to create an alibi, then postponed. Late on the night of March 6 to 7 she telephoned Joyce, asking her to find a traditional healer because, she said, their mother did not wish her well, and asking whether Joyce's neighbors would come to help her if anything happened. Joyce, a Christian who did not consult healers, thought the call strange but agreed to meet her.
On March 7, 2018, Ndlovu traveled with the undercover officer and two of the men on the five-hour drive from Johannesburg to Bushbuckridge. On the recording, which the Sunday Times later published, she said she needed money because her car was about to be repossessed. She described the plan: sleeping pills for Joyce and the children, socks in their mouths, and the house set alight so it would look like an accident. Asked whether the policies covered the children, she said they would pay out only for the mother, and that the children had to die so no witnesses would be left. At a garage in Middelburg she bought two liters of petrol and handed it to the undercover officer. In Bushbuckridge she pointed out Joyce's house and boarded a taxi back toward Gauteng, which the state said was an attempt to set up an alibi. She was arrested. Police found Joyce and her children safe at home.
Joyce later told the court that she had given Rosemary her identity document and her children's birth certificates when Rosemary offered to insure them; Joyce was unemployed, could not afford cover herself and never learned which insurers were involved. Hours after the late-night call, police arrived at her home with Rosemary and told her what had been planned. She wept on the stand and turned her back on her sister as she testified.
Ndlovu applied for bail and was refused. At the bail stage, TimesLIVE reported, she accepted only the charge of conspiring to murder Joyce and her children, saying she would explain at trial.
She was held first at Johannesburg Prison, known as Sun City. While there, Sergeant Mabunda said, she threatened him, at one point saying she would have his son buried alive, and he alleged she tried to arrange his killing; he also told Sunday World she had tried to bribe him first. Colonel Boloka was also alleged to be a target. After these allegations she was moved to the C-Max section at Kgosi Mampuru, the maximum-security prison in Pretoria, before her trial. The charges over the alleged plots against the two officers were added to the Mudau case in 2022.
Ndlovu's trial began in July 2021 in the Gauteng High Court, Johannesburg, sitting at the Palm Ridge court complex south of the city, before Judge Ramarumo Monama. She was represented by Vincent Soko of Legal Aid. The prosecutor was Riana Williams, who had taken over after the original prosecutor left the case. Ndlovu pleaded not guilty to all charges. The Citizen listed the indictment as six counts of murder, eight of attempted murder, 11 of conspiracy to commit murder, three of defeating the ends of justice and four of fraud.
The state's first witness was N.K., the man who went to the police. He told the court that she spoke about killing as though it were no more than squashing an ant. About 50 state witnesses followed, among them the men she had approached, insurance company analysts, a voice analyst, cellphone experts, doctors and surviving relatives. Insurers' representatives testified that she had defrauded Clientele, 1Life, Old Mutual and Assupol.
The defense began in mid-September 2021, when the Sunday Times released the sting footage. Ndlovu testified for several days and was cross-examined at length. Reporters described her as calm at times and irritable at others: proceedings were adjourned more than once when she complained of dizziness or chest pain. Her mother testified in her defense. Her brother, Director Ndlovu, was expected to testify for her, but her lawyer decided at the last minute not to call him.
Ndlovu did not deny holding the policies or receiving the money. She denied killing anyone. On the sting video she said that N.K. had scripted what she said so that the undercover officer would drive her to Bushbuckridge, and that she had no real intention to kill anyone. "Vincent told me what to say," she said, using his middle name. Near the end of her evidence she told the court she was tired of defending herself. "The court can say whatever it wants to say, but I know nothing," she said, and asked, "Where is the proof?" The judge reminded her that she was presumed innocent and that the state had to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt.
In closing arguments on October 14, 2021, the state asked for convictions on all counts, arguing that she had followed a consistent pattern of registering people on policies and then arranging their deaths. Soko argued that the state had only circumstantial evidence and asked for the charges to be dismissed.
Judge Monama delivered judgment on October 22, 2021, in court 13 at Palm Ridge. He began by saying that the country had not seen a case like hers in 89 years, referring to the 1932 trial of Daisy de Melker, a nurse convicted of poisoning her husbands and her son for insurance money, and said the two cases shared hallmarks he called frightening. The central question, he said, was who had killed these people. There was no direct evidence linking Ndlovu to the deaths, and the state relied on circumstantial and similar-fact evidence from more than 50 witnesses and a large body of documents.
He found the state had proved its case. He noted that the policies were for accidental or unnatural death and that she was the beneficiary in each case, and he relied on evidence that men sent to Mpumalanga and to Phomolong had been told not to use guns, so the deaths would look like misfortune. He praised the investigating officer, saying that without Mabunda the files would have stayed untouched at the police station.
She was found guilty of the murders of Witness Madala Homu, Audrey Somisa Ndlovu, Maurice Mabasa, Zanele Motha, Mayeni Mashaba and Brilliant Mashego; of the attempted murder of her mother; of counts arising from the plot against Joyce and her five children; of defeating the ends of justice; and of fraud against the four insurers. A count of conspiracy to murder was dismissed because the state had not proved it beyond reasonable doubt. The National Prosecuting Authority welcomed the verdict and said it hoped for the prescribed minimum sentence of life imprisonment on each murder count.
Before sentence, a state criminologist who specializes in serial murder, Lieutenant Colonel Almerie Myburgh of the police, testified that she had consulted with Ndlovu after the conviction. In her view Ndlovu could be classed as a serial murderer, had little or no prospect of rehabilitation, was manipulative and probably had a personality disorder, and posed a high risk of reoffending because she denied what she had done. Relatives of the victims told the court she had shown no remorse.
Ndlovu addressed the court in tears. She apologized for the pain her relatives had suffered and asked for forgiveness, but she maintained that she had not caused the deaths. "I know they think I killed their family members, but I didn't," she said. The prosecutor asked her to explain what, then, she was asking forgiveness for, and called her account of supporting the victims' families untrue, saying she had spent the money in casinos.
On November 5, 2021, Judge Monama sentenced her to life imprisonment on each of the six murder counts. He imposed 10 years for each of four counts of fraud, 10 years for each of seven counts of incitement to murder, 10 years for the attempted murder of her mother, five years for each count concerning Joyce and her children, and five years for defeating the ends of justice, all to run concurrently. "Effective years of imprisonment is then life," he said. Asking what she had to show for R1.4 million, he observed that she had no partner, no child and no house, and said he found it baffling. He said she had soiled the blue uniform of the police and was a danger to society.
Her lawyer applied for leave to appeal against both conviction and sentence, arguing that another court might reach a different conclusion and that the sentence was too harsh. The judge refused leave immediately. He also refused her request to serve her sentence closer to her family in Johannesburg, saying a maximum-security facility was appropriate, though placement was not his decision.
As she was led away, she turned to the gallery, where an aunt, Mabasa's brother and several witnesses stood, and told them she would be out the following year and would be back for them. Mabunda called police officers to remove her.
Judge Monama died on February 17, 2022, after a short illness. TimesLIVE described the Ndlovu case as one of the last major trials he completed.
In April 2022 Ndlovu was brought to the Kempton Park magistrate's court on new charges. The case against her and Nomsa Mudau over the 2018 plot to kill Justice Mudau had been provisionally withdrawn in 2019 and was re-enrolled in 2022; the alleged plots against Mabunda and Boloka were added. Ndlovu told the court she did not know why she was there. Justice Mudau, by then divorced, told TimesLIVE he had spent years keeping the case alive, had put a security gate on his bedroom door and had lived on takeaway food because he feared what his wife might do.
The trial was repeatedly postponed. In April 2023 Justice Mudau testified that the men had told him they had done earlier "jobs" for Ndlovu, and that his wife had later asked his forgiveness and said Ndlovu had influenced her. He said she would have received R1.5 million in workplace funeral cover had he died. In September 2024, when the trial resumed, Ndlovu faced two counts of conspiracy to commit murder, one concerning Justice Mudau and one concerning Mabunda.
On May 20, 2026, the court convicted both women of incitement to commit murder over the plot against Justice Mudau, the alternative charge the state had proved. On October 14, 2026, each was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment; Ndlovu's term runs concurrently with her life sentences. The NPA's Gauteng spokesperson, Magaboke Mohlatlole, said both women had been serving police officers at the time and that "no person entrusted with enforcing the law is above the law." The investigating officer in that case, Mabunda, was by then a captain.
In July 2023 the Department of Correctional Services said Ndlovu had been found with a cellphone in her cell and charged internally under the Correctional Services Act, which could mean losing privileges or being reclassified. As of May 2026 she was held at Kgosi Mampuru II maximum-security prison in Pretoria, eNCA reported.
As of October 20, 2026, Ndlovu is serving six life sentences, with her other terms running concurrently, including the 10 years imposed on October 14, 2026. The trial court refused leave to appeal her 2021 convictions and sentence on November 5, 2021, and no source found reports any further appeal or petition. In May 2026 eNCA reported that she still faced a charge over the alleged plot against the investigating officer; no outcome for that charge was found in any source.
The deaths split the family. Joyce Ndlovu told the Sunday Times that for years relatives had put the run of deaths down to bad luck and had never imagined that one of their own was responsible. She said that when she watched the sting footage she understood that she and her children should have died. She told TimesLIVE that she did not trust anyone any more, that she still loved her sister but would not visit her in prison, and that their mother had taken Rosemary's side by testifying for her. She was living on odd jobs and her children's social grants.
Several families were left raising children. Sharlene Mashego, in her seventies and widowed, raised Brilliant and now cares for his child. Jabu Nhlapo is raising Zanele's three children. In Bushbuckridge, neighbors told the Sunday Times the community had been shaken, and that the family felt she should not come back. Mabunda told TimesLIVE in 2021 that there might be more victims and that he planned to reopen other cases; no further murder charge against her has been reported.
Proven at trial and, as far as any source shows, final: the murders of Witness Madala Homu, Audrey Somisa Ndlovu, Maurice Mabasa, Zanele Motha, Mayeni Mashaba and Brilliant Mashego; the attempted murder of Maria Mushwana; the counts concerning Joyce and her children; fraud against four insurers; and defeating the ends of justice. The court convicted on circumstantial and similar-fact evidence, and the identity of whoever struck the fatal blows in most of the killings was not established in any source found.
Proven in 2026: incitement to murder Justice Mudau. Ndlovu was not the person who would have collected on that plot.
Charged, outcome not found: the alleged plot from prison to kill Sergeant (now Captain) Mabunda. The alleged plot against Colonel Boloka was reported as a charge in 2022 but is not mentioned in later reports.
Never charged: the deaths of her first partner, who fell ill and died; of their 13-year-old son, whom Joyce believed was poisoned and whose case she said simply disappeared; and of her young daughter with Mabasa, whose toxicology results, according to evidence at sentencing, were inconclusive. These are suspicions held by relatives and neighbors, not findings by any court.
Unproven claims about the hired men: Justice Mudau testified in 2023 that the men had told him they had killed members of Ndlovu's family for her, and the NPA said in 2026 that she approached a man who had been involved in the murders of her relatives. No source found reports any charge against those men for the six killings.
Details that differ between sources: her rank (sergeant in most reports; constable in some); her age in 2021 (46 or 43); the month of Homu's death (March or April 2012); how Mayeni Mashaba died (head injuries or a gunshot to the head); the number of stab wounds on Mabasa (more than 80, or almost 80); the sentence on each fraud count (10 years, or five years in one report); the total of the concurrent terms (reported as 125 years); and the names given for the men involved in the 2018 plots and for the undercover officer.
2008: Ndlovu joins the police; by 2018 she is a sergeant at Tembisa South police station.
2011: begins a relationship with Maurice Mabasa; first policy on his life opened.
March 2012: her cousin Witness Madala Homu is killed on his way home from work.
June 25 to 26, 2013: her sister Audrey Somisa Ndlovu is poisoned and strangled in her rented room in Tembisa.
June 1, 2015: last policy taken out on Mabasa.
October 13 to 14, 2015: Mabasa is stabbed to death; his body is found near Olifantsfontein police station. Sergeant Keshi Mabunda begins investigating.
June 14 to 15, 2016: her niece Zanele Motha is treated at Tembisa Hospital and dies the next night.
April 2017: her nephew Mayeni Mashaba is killed on the day he arranged to meet her in Daveyton.
2017: she asks the man she once arrested to kill a relative in Phomolong; the men do not act.
January 22 to 23, 2018: her nephew Brilliant Mashego is killed and found in Dwarsloop, Bushbuckridge.
February 2018: a man she paid to kill her mother leaves without harming her; the plot against Justice Mudau is set for February 28 and fails when the men warn him.
March 7, 2018: on the sting drive to Bushbuckridge she describes how her sister and five children should be killed; she is arrested.
2018: alleged plot from prison against Mabunda; she is moved to Kgosi Mampuru.
2019: the Mudau case is provisionally withdrawn.
July 2021: trial opens at Palm Ridge before Judge Ramarumo Monama.
September 2021: the defense case; the Sunday Times publishes the sting footage.
October 22, 2021: convicted of six murders and other counts.
November 5, 2021: sentenced to six life terms; leave to appeal refused.
February 17, 2022: Judge Monama dies.
April 2022: the Mudau case is re-enrolled at Kempton Park with new charges concerning the officers.
April 2023: Justice Mudau testifies.
July 2023: found with a cellphone in prison and charged internally.
September 2024: Kempton Park trial resumes on two conspiracy counts.
May 20, 2026: convicted with Nomsa Mudau of incitement to commit murder.
October 14, 2026: sentenced to 10 years, concurrent with her life terms.
October 20, 2026: serving life at Kgosi Mampuru II (latest location report May 2026); no appeal found.