A man suspected of murdering his wife and two daughters in Britain before fleeing to Johannesburg will be extradited to face trial in the UK, South Africa’s justice minister said Sunday.
Ndodana Mkhanyisi Tshuma, a 45-year-old British citizen of Zimbabwean heritage, was arrested in Johannesburg on Friday in an intelligence-led operation involving Interpol.
British prosecutors authorised police to charge him with three counts of murder after the bodies of his wife, Zandile Tshuma, 42, and their daughters, Natalie, 15, and Nala, five, were found at their home in Bedfordshire, north of London, on Tuesday.
Tshuma “will be extradited to the UK once I have signed all the extradition documents and requests”, South African Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi told reporters.
“The teams are working quite hard around the clock so that the extradition requests are done and the paperwork is done in time,” she said, without giving a timeline.
Tshuma is due to appear in a Johannesburg court on Monday.
