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This is not justice: aunt upset by 12-year sentence for man who murdered her niece

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Hlengiwe Msimango was shot and killed by her partner, Musa Ntsibande, four years ago. (PHOTO: Supplied)
Hlengiwe Msimango was shot and killed by her partner, Musa Ntsibande, four years ago. (PHOTO: Supplied)

It’s been four years since she lost the niece who was like a daughter to her – the young woman she’d raised since she was a little girl.

Her niece, Hlengiwe Msimango, was shot dead in the bedroom of her home in Norkem Park, east of Johannesburg, in a case that has awful echoes of Reeva Steenkamp’s 2013 death at the hands of her boyfriend, Oscar Pistorius.

Hlengiwe’s fiancé, Musa Ntsibande, shot her in the early hours of 3 August 2020, claiming he believed an intruder was in the house.

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