'If a small child didn't intervene I would be lying in a grave today'

08 August 2021 - 00:00 By aron hyman

Monica Sikile, 50, weeps for 30 minutes as she tells the story of how her boyfriend, Lithemba Nyandeni, brutally raped, beat and throttled her four years ago in their Cape Flats home...

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