People have been fascinated in the year of 2021 by courtroom dramas that emulated the greatest any screenwriter could put together, as plots unraveled and evidence proved to be the gift that kept on giving.

 

 

 
In addition, the courts handed down numerous harsh penalties for a number of offenses.

One that was most memorable was that of Nomia Ndlovu, a former police constable who was sentenced to six life terms in November for being the mastermind behind a spree of killings motivated by greed and the money.

The 46-year-old was found guilty of murdering her partner as well as five members of her family in order to benefit from life insurance policies.

Ndlovu was also found guilty of plotting to kill her sister Joyce and her five children, but they escaped her homicidal plans.

Her killing spree began in 2012 and ended in 2018, when she was arrested after the hitman she hired to burn her sister and children alive in their Bushbuckridge house tipped off police, triggering an undercover police sting operation.

While Ndlovu’s case took a couple of years from arrest to conviction, a man who killed and beheaded his girlfriend in 2019 pled guilty and received a 23-year sentence.

On April 25, 2019, Elhadji Adama Kebe, 33, stabbed Sibongile Zenzile, 28, more than ten times at the Kempton Park flat they shared. He also severed her head and stored it in their refrigerator.

The next day, Kebe was apprehended at the couple’s shop.

Instead of imposing the mandatory minimum sentence of life in prison for this murder, the top court in Johannesburg sentenced him to the shorter sentence on May 18 after determining that mitigating factors existed.

Kebe was a first-time offender who had showed remorse, had spent two years in prison awaiting trial, had pled guilty, and had the possibility of rehabilitation.

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