Sindisiwe Manqele claims she killed hip hop star Nkululeko "Flabba" Habedi in self-defence, broadcaster eNCA reported.
Local residents clashed with people understood to be the accused’s relatives outside court, where Cindy Manqele appeared.
Barely had the news landed and already South Africans had started on their favourite activity: myth-making in celebrity lives gone wrong.
Hip hop musician Nkuleleko Habedi has been stabbed to death, allegedly by a woman believed to be his girlfriend.