North West Man Given Life Imprisonment for Killing His Cheating Wife

• A North West man has been given a life imprisonment sentence after he killed his unfaithful wife
• He killed her after she returned home from disappearing at night, and he pleaded guilty
• South Africans criticised the man and condemned his actions

Tebogo Mokwena, a Briefly News current affairs journalist in Johannesburg, South Africa, covered police investigations and court cases at Daily Sun for over three years.

A man from the North West was handed a life sentence for killing his wife after accusing her of cheating on him. The Tlhabane Magistrate Court handed Sithandile Ndlobothi after he killed his wife brutally in January last year.

Man kills wife, given a life sentence

According to TimeLIVE, Ndlobothi slept when his baby's crying woke him up. When he got up to put the baby back to sleep, he discovered that his wife wasn't there. He went outside and looked for her. His neighbours informed him that she had returned, and he severely assaulted her in full view of people.

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While he beat her, she confessed that she was having an affair with another man, and the beating continued. People begged and pleaded with him to stop, and when he did, she was taken to the hospital, where she died from her injuries.

South Africans disturbed by the murder

South Africans on Facebook were disturbed by why the man killed his wife.

Fikile Mbambi said:

"He should have left her."

Fana KaNontipholo Langa Sothole said:

"This is unacceptable. Attachment issues contributed to this situation. He had no right to kill a person just because she wasn't faithful. Divorce and breakups were available for them. He must rot in jail.

Rendani Netshirungulu said:

"He must rot in jail. When your wife cheats, divorce her. Who gave you the right to take her life?"

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siyabulela Haji Maho observed:

"Cheating, anger, betrayal, pain and regret is what marriage has come to."

Man kills his wife after heated argument

In a similar article, Briefly News reported that a man was arrested for stabbing his wife to death.

The man, from Limpopo, allegedly got into a heated argument with his wife and disappeared, coming back with a sharp object which he used to stab her fatally.

Limpopo commissioner, Lieutenant Thembi Hadebe, condemned the crime in the strongest terms and called on men who have violent or aggressive tendencies to seek professional help.

Source: Briefly News