January 23, 2023 is a date permanently etched in the memory of Elie Challita.
Just a little more than a month ago, Challita, 34, was driving home to Mulbarton, Johannesburg, after he had been house hunting in Polokwane, Limpopo.
He was praying that his 23-year-old live-in girlfriend, Amber Hughes, a preschool teacher at