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.