\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nLerato would go on to falsely identify Sithebe\u2019s body as her husband\u2019s, helping Sibusiso fake his own death and cashing in on more than R500 000 in life insurance claims, which they shared.<\/p>\n
The scam ran it\u2019s course when Mahlangu, who had been living in Hamaanskraal under the fake name of Hope Zungu, was caught out by authorities after it was discovered he was registered as deceased.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nHanding down the life sentence, Judge Mokhine Mosopa emphasised that he wanted the accused to learn to respect human life and dignity.<\/p>\n
He highlighted the alarming trend of insurance killings in the country, urging the accused to use their time behind bars to reflect on how they can assist the victims of their crimes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nSpeaking at the back of sentencing, the deceased\u2019s brother, Xolani Sithebe, said while court proceedings took their emotional toll, he\u2019s pleased with the outcome.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cThis thing has been a very traumatic experience. But it\u2019s worth it now that they were sentenced to life imprisonment,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cMy brother fought for himself. I believe he was totally with us throughout this whole case in spirit,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family of slain Soshanguve father, Sibusiso Sithebe, says his soul can rest in peace now that his killers are behind bars.\u00a0 Sithebe\u2019s ex-partner, Lerato, and her husband, Sibusiso Mahlangu, were sentenced to life behind bars for his murder on Friday.\u00a0 The pair was convicted in November for luring Sithebe ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":28895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/CC4B791F-720B-4981-9384-13077BF5B3CA.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28894"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28908,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28894\/revisions\/28908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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