On Monday night; Zibonele Ngcobo (75); from K section in Umlazi township south of Durban; in Kwazulu Natal; shot and killed his wife Nokuthula Ngcobo (69); then turned the gun on himself.<\/p>\n
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Zibonele Ngcobo (75) and Nokuthula Ngcobo (69); who died on Monday.<\/p>\n
Zamafuze Ngcobo (32); the elderly couple’s daughter said; they started noting changes in her father; a few months before the incident. Ngcobo said he started saying things they did not understand.<\/p>\n
He then became paranoid and said some people wanted to kill him; soon after he started carrying his licenced gun; which he had acquired in his younger years.<\/p>\n
Ngcobo told the local newspaper that her father started carrying his gun even when he went to church and kept saying some people want him dead.<\/p>\n
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Though he never said who those people were; he kept repeating the same thing. Ngcobo said; on the fateful day; the three of them were sitting together watching TV around 21:30.<\/p>\n
Her father started shouting at Ngcobo and her mother; and asked them if they did not realise that it was late; he instructed them to switch off the television set and go to sleep. They complied.<\/p>\n
Ngcobo said she was in her bedroom asleep; when she heard two gunshots; but then she dismissed it as something coming from the street and continued to sleep.<\/p>\n
Ngcobo says the next morning; she woke up around 0700 a.m. and noticed that her parents were still asleep; this puzzled her because they both usually woke up early.<\/p>\n
She knocked on the door to see if they were alright; but there was no answer; she then tried to open the door but it was locked from the inside.<\/p>\n
She then tried other doors within the house; but they were all locked; this is when she started to panic and tried to use one of the windows to get out of the house to seek help from the neighbours.<\/p>\n
When she was outside the house and walked past her parents bedroom; she tried to open their bedroom window; but got a shock of her life to see them lying in pools of blood.<\/p>\n
The spokesperson for the SAPS in Kwazulu Natal; Colonel Thembeka Mbele said; the Bhekithemba police station officers; at Umlazi; have opened an inquest docket for murder and another for the death of a person.<\/p>\n
Why would such an old man; murder his own wife; then turn the gun on himself? It seems like they had been together for a long time; which is exhibited by their 32 year-old daughter; so what went wrong?<\/p>\n
The shocking acts of based violence (GBV); by men are worrying.<\/p>\n
Ikhehla (75) “lidubule labulala” isalukazi (69)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n