Despite “bathtub killer” Yibanathi Ndema’s life sentence for the murder of his wife, Noluvuyo Nonkwelo-Ndema, her father is still angry with the police for the way they handled the case.Nonkwelo-Ndema, 34, vanished from her marital home in Vulindlela village in Zingqayi between Butterworth and Dutywa on July 1 2019, and two days later her husband reported her missing.
Yibanathi Ndema, who made national headlines after killing his wife, and cementing her body under their bath, has been sentenced to life imprisonment plus 11 years on other charges.
In a quest to find closure after the brutal murder of Noluvuyo Nonkwe-Ndema, strangled in 2019 by her abusive husband Yibanathi Ndema, who then buried the body under the bath in their bathroom, her siblings have recorded a song in her memory.
Allegations of extramarital affairs, jealousy and a deadly argument between husband and wife were some of the chilling details that surfaced in the trial of bathtub murder-accused Yibanathi McGyver Ndema.