“I can’t believe she’s dead”
Mbuyisa says he still cannot believe that Nomsa is dead.
“It has not sunk in yet. She loved him so much but he did not see that. We were relieved when she came back home. She was starting to be herself again, being jolly all the time.”
Mbuyisa’s uncle Mokete Mazibuko, 53, said the griefstricken family was concerned about Nomsa’s children, especially the 16-year-old boy who had not shed a tear since the incident
“Her children are suffering the most. The middle one was very close to her mother. The other two are showing emotions by crying. I think they all need help,” he said.
Mazibuko said Nomsa had moved back home following an attack. “She moved back to her mother’s house because he was abusive.
“He abused her daily for years. She stayed with him all those years until she took the decision to come back home with her children.
“He was unemployed and she took care of him,” he said.
Mazibuko said the family tried to intervene when incidents of abuse were reported to them.
“He wouldn’t stop. That is who he is. There were so many incidents and this was the last stroke. She stuck by him regardless [of the abuse].
“She bought the house they lived in, she raised their kids and took them to school.
“I don’t understand why he did this, we thought things would be better,” he said.