Her mother‚ Aphathia Legwale‚ did not believe the news of Carla's death until she saw her daughter's bloodied corpse.It was only then that Legwale and her family learnt that Carla's husband had beaten her in front of their toddler and that she had a protection order against him.IT engineer and businessman Tshimologo Huma‚ 38‚ was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his wife's murder in the Randburg Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.Huma followed Carla‚ 32‚ to a nearby friend's house and stabbed her to death in December 2011 after the couple had had a fight at Huma's internet café in Cosmo City‚ Johannesburg.Huma kicked‚ dragged and stabbed Carla repeatedly with a blunt knife.Speaking at her home in Mahikeng‚ North West‚ a few days before the sentencing‚ Legwale said her "heart becomes painful and miserable" when she thinks of the loss of her only daughter‚ who was a radiographer and maintained her in her retirement“Carla helped me and the family. She was an advisor and she did a lot for me‚” the 63-year-old pensioner said.Carla and Tshimologo's seven-year-old daughter lives with Legwale who maintains the child on her pension. She said she could not collect a child support grant or claim money from her daughter's deceased estate until the criminal trial is concluded.“Every time I think of her child I worry. Who will look after her [when I am gone]?”Carla's brother Donald Motase said that Carla was the family's beacon of hope.“She was humble‚ soft-spoken‚ friendly and a good cook. She would give her last cent to the needy.”Asked if Huma had ever apologised to their family for Carla's death‚ Legwale said: “He can't even greet me.”“I can say I forgive but deep down in my heart is a deep wound and I don't know who is going to close it‚" Legwale said.According to Professor Rachel Jewkes‚ director of the Gender and Health Research Unit at the SA Medical Research Council‚ 57% of women killed in South Africa are killed by their intimate partners‚ which is six times the global average.She cited this research‚ done in 2009‚ in the trial of radio DJ Donald Sebolai‚ who was jailed for 20 years earlier this month for murdering his girlfriend Rachel "Dolly" Tshabalala...