Arrest of Limpopo cop over six counts of murder puts spotlight on insurance-related killings

Here are some of the people accused and convicted of multiple murders for insurance purposes:

Daniel Mokwai, 62

The North West man faces three counts of murder over allegations that he killed his son and his wife’s two teenage relatives who were siblings.

Mokwai allegedly poisoned his son Mothibi, 31, as well as siblings Orapeleng, 17, and Mosimanegape Tsikang, 16, who were his wife’s nephews. He had allegedly insured the three and claimed from insurance after their deaths. Mothibi died in 2022, Mosimanegape on 2021 and Orapeleng in 2020.

Mokwai was denied bail at Blomhof magistrate’s court on September 13 as his relatives fear him and the court believes he is a flight risk. He will be back in court on October 30.

Segomotso Setshwantsho, 49

Setshwantsho, also from North West, is set to go on trial next on January 20 over allegations that she killed her son Kutlo as well as niece Bonolo Modisaemang by poisoning them.

It has also been alleged that Setshwantsho had insured at least 40 family members with five different insurance companies. 

Police have also exhumed the remains of her husband, Wt/O Justice Setshwantsho, who died in 2016, to determine the cause of his death.

Setshwantsho’s other two daughters died in 2005 and 2015 but she has not been linked to their deaths.