A LIFE CUT SHORT
SHE felt sick to her stomach. As she stared at the picture on her phone, Ntombovuyo Mtebeni kept telling herself there must be some mistake – it couldn’t be her cousin, Nosicelo Mtebeni, who’d been killed in such a horrific way.
She didn’t want to believe Nosicelo had been dismembered, stuffed into a suitcase and discarded on a street corner just metres from her home in Quigney, East London.
But as she stared at the grim pictures doing the rounds on social media, Ntombovuyo knew deep down it was true. Her beloved cousin, a law student at the University of Fort Hare, was the victim of this unspeakable deed.
