23-year-old jailed for killing cop boyfriend and staging death as suicide

A 23-year-old woman, Bongiwe Praise Magwaza, has been sentenced to 39 years imprisonment for the m8rder of her boyfriend, police sergeant Kgopotso Ntsana,36, in South Africa.

Magwaza was sentenced in the Johannesburg High Court on Wednesday, 14 August 2024.

The sentences are as follows: Count 1 Murder: 20 years

Count 2 Unlawful Possession of Firearm: 7 years

Count 3 Unlawful Possession of ammunition: 5 years

Count 4 Defeating the end of justice: 7 years

She was also declared unfit to possess a firearm.

Ntsana was stationed at Elsburg police station, in Germiston, City of Ekurhuleni when he was shot daad by his cheating girlfriend.

Following an investigation by the Hawks’ Serious Organised Crime team and insurmountable evidence presented at court, Magwaza was found guilty as charged on four counts, murder, possession of unlicensed firearm and ammunition and defeating the ends of justice. She was convicted on Monday, 01 July 2024.

The unyielding Hawks investigation has shed light on what transpired on the fateful night Sergeant Ntsana lost his life.

According to Warrant Officer Thatohatsi Mavimbela, the Gauteng spokesperson for the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, on Friday, 02 December 2022, at about 22:30, the couple had an argument at their shared residence in Leomakalapa next to Windmill Park Estate in Boksburg.

“The argument escalated to a scuffle which resulted in Magwaza stabbing the deceased with a pair of scissors multiple times. Magwaza then took the deceased’s firearm from where it was kept and shot him on his head at point-blank range,” Mavimbela said.