A woman killed by her husband together with her daughters. Family fights for the right to bury them.

Sithembile Nothembela murdered his wife and 2 daughters, according to the police. Pumla Mvinjelwa’s family filled a crucial application to the high court to bury their daughter and grandchildren. Monday there was a discussion between the legal representative of the family and judge Elizabeth Baartman and all partied involved were told to return today to file replying affidavits. The Mvinjelwa family said that even if Ntombola paid lobola, it was his family’s right to bury their daughter and her children when he murdered them; with that said Ntombela family requested that in terms of cultural law and lobola, their son had paid, they were entitled to bury their son, his wife and the two grandchildren. From the time when the incident happened the bodies have been kept at the Mortuary. A strike outside the court was commenced by the Mvinjelwa family.