The mother and sister of slain Amalinda businesswoman Busisiwe Ngwadla sat barely three metres away from the man who claimed he killed her, saying he acted in self-defence and “blacked out” while stabbing her numerous times.

Ayanda “Mpiriri” Matika, 50, is charged with the murder of Ngwadla (https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/city/2019-02-27-mother-found-murdered-in-amalinda-east-london-flat/), 37, at Emerald Sky flats in Amalinda in February. Ngwadla, a mother of a teenage son, was found by neighbours lying in a pool of blood in front of her bathroom door...