CASE OF MOTHER ACCUSED OF KILLING HER CHILDREN POSTPONED DUE TO ILL-HEALTH
LUTENDO LIVHEBE – MUDAU. THE case against a woman accused of murder if her four children, Nomboleko Simayile (32), has been postponed to 29 November by the Ngcobo Magistrates’ Court. The court postponed the matter in her absentia as she was transferred to hospital after she fell ill in the holding cells.
Nomboleko Simayile, 32, was transferred to the local hospital after she fell sick in the holding cells and the matter against her was postponed in her absentia, the provincial spokesperson for the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) Luxolo Tyali said.
This comes after she was arrested on November 9 in the Mhlabubomvu locality in Engcobo.
At the time, Eastern Cape provincial police spokesperson Brigadier Tembinkosi Kinana said the children were between 2 and 11 years old and sustained injuries to the upper part of their bodies.
Prosecutor Lindelwa Totyi told the court that the state intends applying for the accused to be referred observation in accordance to Section 77 of the Criminal Procedure Act on her next appearance, as there is reasonable suspicion that she is not mentally fit to stand trial.
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.
