Convicted murderer Rosemary ‘Nomiya’ Ndlovu is back in court, this time for conspiracy to kill a friend’s husband Justice Mudau so that his wife Nomsa Mudau could allegedly benefit from life insurance worth R1,5 million.
Nomsa Mudau appeared alongside Ndlovu in the Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court, where Justice Mudau told the court that his wife Nomsa had already confessed to plotting to kill him.
Justice said Nomsa met Ndlovu at the Tembisa Police Station and influenced her to kill her husband. “She said a friend influenced her; she arranged that I should be killed,” he told the court and said he is not prepared to forgive his would-be-killer.
“I told her it would be difficult for me to forgive her because she didn’t only wrong me. She wronged my whole family.”
Mudau told the court that on 25 February 2018, two hitmen, Jabulani Mtshali and Vincent Kunene, confronted him and told him his wife hired them to kill him for R150 000.
He said he didn’t believe it, but they showed him evidence that, indeed, they were hired by Nomsa.
“Mtshali claimed my wife had hired him to kill me. What’s wrong, what did I do? I asked Mtshali. He replied that Nomsa alleged I had committed adultery and ill-treated her. I asked how much they were offered for such a big job and for things I didn’t know?
“Mtshali said they were promised R80 000, which would be paid after I had been killed. A further R70 000 was promised after insurance policies had paid out. I asked where, when, and how they met with Nomsa,” he said.
Mudau said he begged for his life then the two hitmen said if he offered them better money, they would instead kill Nomsa because she hadn’t paid them the deposit.
“Mtshali said I was a good man. He continued that the wrong person was your wife. She still needs to pay us a deposit. If you pay us something better than she promised, we can kill her.
I disagreed with that. From where I come from, we don’t believe in killing people.
“I said I don’t have much money. I offered him R1000 to appreciate what he had told me. I arranged a plan to give him R1000. I was shaking, trembling, and irritated. I then went to a neighbour’s house an hour later. I went home and my wife was there,” he said.
Ndlovu is serving six life sentences for hiring hitmen to kill her lover and father of her children, Maurice Mabasa; cousin Witness Madala Homu; sister Audrey Ndlovu; niece Zanele Motha; nephew Brilliant Mashego and another relative, Mayeni Mashego.
Ndlovu orchestrated the killings to benefit from funeral and life insurance payouts of R1.4 million.
The case has been postponed to 6 July.
