The Pretoria high court on Monday sentenced Pamela Ncumisa Selani to three life terms for killing her two boyfriends and her 17-year-old son between 2016 and 2018.
In 2016, Selani, 47, from Olievenhoutbosch in Centurion, and her then-partner Micheal Changisa, from Malawi, argued after she discovered that he had allegedly infected her with a chronic disease, National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Lumka Mahanjana said.
Weeks after the argument, Selani asked her second boyfriend Gift Phiri, who lived in the same area, to help her kill Changisa at her home.
Phiri repeatedly hit Changisa with a hammer on his head in the presence of Selani’s two minor children and left him in the bedroom where he died, Mahanjana said.
“After the incident, Selani and [Phiri] buried the deceased in her yard.”
After Changisa was killed, Selani and Phiri lived together in the house she had shared with the deceased.
“In 2017 while staying together Selani, conspired with her son Avile Jonjwana to kill [Phiri] because he was abusing her.”
Selani and her son poisoned Phiri and held his head in water until he died. Afterwards, they buried his body in a shallow grave on top of the first victim.
Mahanjana said Jonjwana, who was addicted to drugs, started demanding money from his mother and threatened to report her to the police.
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