- Nancy Majonhi was expected to appear in court on Tuesday.
- The Zimbabwean woman allegedly murdered her husband in 2015 in the North West, but only confessed to it in January this year.
- The case was officially closed after she died in hospital.
The case against a woman accused of murdering her husband with a hammer, before dismembering his body with a spade, has been officially closed following her death.
Nancy Majonhi's case was closed in the Mogwase Magistrate's Court in North West on Tuesday after the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) got confirmation that she died. She had been in hospital for over a month.
The court had, since August, postponed Majonhi's formal bail application three times due to her poor health.
"I can confirm that Majonhi passed on, on 12 November 2021 around 20:00, due to undisclosed health complications. The matter closed today in court," NPA spokesperson Henry Mamothame said.
News24 reported that Majonhi, 42, died at a hospital on Saturday morning.
She was admitted to the Moses Kotane Hospital for an unknown illness and subsequently went on a hunger strike.
North West Department of Health spokesperson Tebogo Lekgethwane previously told News24 that a post-mortem would be conducted to reveal the cause of death.
Majonhi confessed to butchering her husband, Prosper Chipungare, with a hammer at their rented room in Ledig village, near Sun City, on 28 July 2015.
After he lost consciousness, Majonhi told police that she chopped Chipungare's body into pieces and dumped his body parts in three pit latrines.
According to her brother, Andrew, she claimed that she was forced to confess because Chipungare's ghost was haunting her.
After her confession to her family in Zimbabwe, Majonhi was brought to South Africa, where she told police what had happened.
She was arrested and the three toilets were demolished. Human remains were found and taken for DNA testing.