The Mpumalanga woman who masqueraded as Deputy President David Mabuza's niece has pleaded guilty to three counts of fraud.
Nomfundo Sambo (32) appeared before the Mpumalanga High court today.
She is facing fraud, forgery, and defeating the ends of justice charges after she made startling allegations in a written affidavit that Mabuza was on, 05 November 2018, conspiring to murder a prominent business man, Fred Daniels.
In the written affidavit, Sambo stated that Mabuza was her uncle and she was staying with him in Gauteng.
She represented herself as Thandeka Mabuza when writing the affidavit. Sambo claimed that she was called by two security guys, claiming that there were two men who wanted to see her.
She identied the men as Ian Nyalunga and Mandla Nkosi.
In her affidavit, Sambo said she told them to sleep over so they can be able to meet with her uncle on the next day.
She said Nyalunga and Nkosi managed to meet with Mabuza in his study room.
She explained further that she found a diary that was opened and found a hit list of people who were to be killed by Mabuza.
She was arrested by the Hawks in 2019 and was released on R3000 bail.
In 2010 Sambo opened an account at a furniture shop using a fraudulent Identity Document, she was arrested however the withdrawn.
Last year Sambo was arrested after she falsely opened a robbery case with Lowscreek police. She claimed she was robbed of her company's laptop and cash. Preliminary investigation revealed that the allegations of robbery by Sambo were fabricated and it is further believed that she provided false names to police.
She is expected back in court on 19 August for social worker's report.
