IT’S December 2004 and a young couple get married. They’re happy and in love, their future filled with the promise of opportunity and adventure.
But fast forward nearly 20 years and the picture couldn’t be more different. One half of the couple is dead; the other charged with murder.
The October 2021 slaying of Liezel de Jager, a beloved pastor at a church in Amanzimtoti, made news headlines for weeks. The mom of two had just returned from a morning run when she was killed in the driveway of the house the church provides for its pastors. There were strangulation marks on her neck.
Her husband Werner’s version of what happened that day made little sense and a bizarre set of
