ROSEMARY'S Hitlist, the true-crime documentary series about cop-turned-serial-killer Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu, is now streaming on Showmax, with new episodes on Wednesdays.
This documentary is produced by IdeaCandy and directed by Valen’tino Mathibela.
"I was drawn to Rosemary's story because it’s unbelievable. It’s a cop killing her family. I wanted to find out why a mother, a daughter, and a sister would become a perpetrator while in a position of power to do the opposite and protect her family instead. Money was not enough of a reason," said Valen’tino.
She said that murder alone was already chilling, and getting the victims to share their stories was hard.
"These are people’s lives. They have already had their trust betrayed by a loved one. We had to find a way to make them trust us by being one of them, by caring for them before we put them on camera," she said.
Valen’tino said that some victims were still scared despite Rosemary's arrest.
"When she was sentenced, she made a threat to one of the witnesses to say, ‘I will spend this Christmas in jail, but next year, I will be out. I will be back, and you will see.’ So people were still afraid, and we had some witnesses who changed their minds daily while we chased a deadline. "That is why, with some of the witnesses, we had to hide their identity when we filmed them," she said.
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She said one stage, she had to start looking over her shoulder everywhere she went.
She described Rosemary as charming and warm person.
"She is imposing when she walks in. Everyone's attention goes to her, and then she smiles. I was so intrigued by the psyche of this woman who was able to blindside so many people. I was also surprised by her ability to distance herself from the responsibility of the crimes and her mastery of alibi," said Mathibela.
She is serving six life terms at Kgosi Mampuru II Prison in Tshwane for the murders of her six relatives.
She killed her sister Audrey Somisa, her nephew Brilliant Mashego, her niece Zanele Motha, her nephew Mayeni Mashaba, her cousin Witness Madaka Homu and her boyfriend, Yingwani Maurice Mabasa to cash in R1,4 million from their life and funeral policies.
Ndlovu was also sentenced to an additional 30 years; 10 years each for fraud, incitement to commit murder, and the attempted murder of her mother, Maria Mushwana, her sister Joyce, and Joyce’s five children.
