
Faith Nongcebo Ntombela, the 44-year-old wife of Captain Zwelakhe Ntombela, a Durban Metro Police officer, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for her husband’s murder. Captain Ntombela was fatally shot on 3 May 2023, as he arrived at his home in Umlazi.
Investigations revealed that Nongcebo had stolen her husband’s private and service firearms before the shooting incident. Her accomplice, Mzo Ntombela, was arrested in July last year and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for murder.
Nongcebo was also sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for theft of firearms and two years imprisonment for defeating the ends of justice, with her sentences running concurrently.
The trial of her accomplices, Khulani Cele and Sithembiso Khumalo, will continue in April 2025.