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A member of the South African National Defence Force has been jailed for life for the murder of his wife.
The National Prosecuting Authority said that 33-year-old Welcome Sambo was sentenced in the Mpumalanga High Court on Friday for killing his wife, Wandisile, in May 2021.
NPA spokesperson, Monica Nyuswa, said prior to the incident the deceased had obtained a protection order against her husband in 2019.
However, he said Sambo violating the court order when he went to his wife’s workplace at the Nkomazi Municipality in October, 2021 when he stabbed and shot her following an altercation.
She died on the scene and Sambo fled but was arrested later.
Nyuswa said he pleaded not guilty during the trial claiming self-defence but was later convicted on both charges of murder and violating the protection order.
She said the NPA welcomed the sentence.
