Woman given eight years for ordering hit on SA hubby

A joint operation executed by members of Provincial Organised Crime and Kimberley Crime Intelligence led to the arrest of the 43-year-old in May 2022. Following a week-long intelligence gathering and surveillance operation, the team executed the arrest with the assistance of agents who posed as hitmen. It was alleged then that she wanted the hitmen to kidnap and kill her husband and promised to pay them a substantial amount of money after the supposed hit. She was intercepted and arrested whilst negotiating with the ‘hitmen’.

After spending over two years in a Northern Cape jail, in September 2024, Leshiba finally entered a guilty plea for the offence.