Joseph Ntshongwana is a former South African rugby player who played for the Blue Bulls from 1998 to 2001.
Ntshongwana was arrested in 2011 for hacking four men to death and wounding two others with an axe to avenge the gang-rape and subsequent HIV-infection of his daughter earlier in 2011.
[2] His father told the court his son suffered from bipolar disorder.
A psychiatrist testified that Ntshongwana was not mentally unstable and that the murders were premeditated and deliberate.
In February 2012, a Durban court declared him fit to stand trial.