Serial killer Pamela Selani's aunt opens up on life with her niece, believes she was next target

JOHANNESBURG - An Olievenhoutbosch woman believes she would have been murdered next by her serial killer niece, who buried and lived with dead bodies in her yard.

The aunt of Pamela Selani has recalled life with the 47-year-old, who was handed three life sentences in June for the murders of her two lovers and her son.

The court found that she murdered her first lover, Michael Changisa, in 2016, accusing him of infecting her with HIV.

She conspired with a second lover to murder Changisa with a hammer, before turning on him a year later, claiming that he had been abusive.

The Pretoria High Court found that she rallied her teenage son to poison and drown the man before then murdering her son, who threatened to report her to police.

Thobeka Sopam said that when two of her niece's lovers went missing mysteriously, months apart, she started asking questions and she believes that made her Selani’s next target.

She said she intensified her questions when Selani’s eldest son also disappeared and Selani showed no concern.

Sopam said she believes that’s when Selani started trying to kill her.

"She once came with a bottle of Coke just for me, she pulled out a glass for me, which I found odd, so I rinsed it. Her youngest son later told me that she had tried to kill me on many occasions."

It would be Selani’s youngest son, Sithenkosi Jongwa, who would out her mother, telling community leaders about the bodies that she had buried in their yard.

"He came to my house late in the night, shirtless, and told me if I did not open for him, his mother would murder him just like his older brother."

Jongwa, who was just 14 when he witnessed his mother committing the crimes, would turn State witness years later and give the testimony that would see her handed three life sentences in the Pretoria High Court.