Nompumelelo Ntuli Zuma is the former First Lady of South Africa, and is the second current wife in a polygamous marriage with Jacob Zuma, the former President of South Africa.
ZumaâÂÂs fourth marriage and second current wife, Nompumelelo Ntuli (MaNtuli) is the mother to three of his children, before she married him in 2008 at a traditional ceremony which received plenty of media attention in the run-up to ZumaâÂÂs bid for the presidency. She has three children: Manqoba Kholwani, Sinqobile, Thandisiwe.
In 2015, it was alleged she was part of a plot to poison her husband, then-president Jacob Zuma. In result, she was banned from the Nkandla homestead. She was detained by the State Security Agency, allegedly unlawfully, and was released later. Later investigations found no evidence of the poisoning or her role in it. The exact circumstances of her detention are under investigation.