/ 18 December 2000

WIFE KILLER ACCUSED IN COURT

AN Mpumalanga man accused of killing his wife and hacking her genitals has applied for legal aid. The 31-year-old mechanic was not asked to plead. He was arrested after his 25-year-old wife’s mutilated body was found naked near the N4 highway at Ngodwana on Monday. The woman’s identity is being withheld until her family has been informed of her death. The couple lived in Bhamjee squatter camp in Ngodwana, about 40km west of Nelspruit. – African Eye News Service