For the first time since building his home in Thantseka village 44 years ago, Mlamli Mgxada did not spend Christmas there, enjoying a meal cooked by his wife, Novotile. This was not by choice. Mgxada, 70, was forced to flee his home after his wife, three children and four relatives were gunned down in November.
Two men believed to be part of a gang of four who shot dead three family members a grandmother mother, her daughter and her grandson near Bhityi outside Mthatha on February 2, appeared in the Mthatha magistrate's court on Monday.