The convict, Ncumisa Selani.
By Mark Longyen, with agency reports
A South African Court sitting in Pretoria has sentenced a woman, Ncumisa Selani, to three life terms for killing her two boyfriends and her 17-year-old son between 2016 and 2018.
Delivering judgment, the court held that the convict was guilty as charged by the prosecution, which it said had proved the case against her beyond reasonable doubt.
Local reports said that the convict’s road to multiple life imprisonments began in 2016, when she discovered that her boyfriend from Malawi, Michael Changisa, had infected her with HIV disease.
Ncumisa then called her other boyfriend from Zimbabwe, Michael Phiri, where she asked him to help “eliminate” Changisa.
Phiri promptly did the job and they conspired to bury Changisa’s remains in the yard of her house.
In 2017, Phiri moved in and lived with Ncumisa and her two sons (17 and 10 years old) in her house.
However, Phiri later became abusive to Ncumisa, so she and her son (17) killed and buried Phiri on top of Changisa’s body.
In 2018, the 17-year-old son became a heavy drug user and he constantly blackmailed Ncumisa by always asking her for money for drugs, threatening to tell the police what they did to Phiri.
Ncumisa decided to get out of the mess by killing her son and burying him on top of Changisa and Phiri’s bodies.
In 2020, Ncumisa’s remaining younger son, now 14 years old, started getting sick so they decided to visit a traditional healer to find out what was wrong with him.
During the consultation, the son told the native doctor about the 3 killings that happened in the house, saying that he believed they were responsible for his mysterious, incurable “sickness”.
The native doctor immediately went to the police station and reported Ncumisa to the law enforcement agents, who promptly arrested her for the multiple murders.
She was subsequently charged to court, tried and finally convicted and sentenced accordingly.