“I have been through hell and back, but now I am happy and sleeping peacefully.”
This is how Bulelwa Ndudula described “the passing of this dark chapter in my life” – the two years the East London primary school teacher spent in in the dock combating the accusation she shot her husband four times in cold blood.
She was found not guilty of murdering her husband Sakhekile Ndudula, who was social development MEC Nancy Sihlwayi’s chief of staff and an ANC Chris Hani region leader.
Breaking her silence after East London high court judge Igna Stretch acquitted her, Bulelwa Ndudula said the experience – both in the criminal court and in the court of public opinion – was traumatic.
She is planning to sue the state.
“This has been a very traumatic and a shocking chapter in my life which will take time to overcome and heal from,” she said...