MOTHER IN COURT FOR THE MURDER OF HER CHILDREN.
LUTENDO LIVHEBE – MUDAU -The woman accused of killing her four children, Nomboleko Simayile (32), appeared in the Ngcobo Magistrates’ Court. Four counts of murder have been preferred against her, and the court has remanded her in custody until her next appearance on 17 November 2022, where she is to apply for bail.
It is alleged that on the morning of Wednesday, 09 November 2022, the accused told her father that she had killed her two boys and two girls, aged 11, 9, 5 and 2. They had been slepping with her in a rondavel at heir homestead at Tsalaba Area in the district of Ngcobo, while her aged parents were sleeping in a seperate flat within the same homestead. The father alerted his wife and summoned the community members after making the gruesome discovery of his grandchildren. All of them had been bludgeoned to death with a hammer.
Prosecutor Lindelwa Totyi told the court that the matter is a Schedule 6 offence and will therefore, oppose bail.
