ONELA MGWEBI

SOLE breadwinner and mother to a two-year-old girl, Onela Mgwebi, 27, loved cooking and singing. She died after being stabbed last month, allegedly by her boyfriend, in the flat she rented in Mzamba, near Port Edward.

Onela’s mother, Nowina Mgwebi, said she had never met the boyfriend, who is behind bars, awaiting trial for murder in the Bizana Magistrate’s Court.

Onela’s sister, Abongile, said the man accused of killing her sister, Bonginkosi Miya, had allegedly abused her since 2015 when they started dating. “Back in 2015 . . . he wanted Onela to walk him home. She said she was tired and he left, but he was hiding . . . As soon as Onela’s phone rang he came inside and started screaming that she didn’t want to walk him but had the time to talk to men on the phone.” Miya had dragged Onela outside and beaten her.

“The night she was killed she sent me a WhatsApp saying that she was going to lay charges against Bonginkosi.” But it was too late. Police captain Edith Mjoko said: “The boyfriend went to her house at about 10pm, suspecting she was cheating on him. He allegedly stabbed her eight times . . . He has confessed.”