SMS love affair led to death

SMS love affair led to death

The family of a young woman had no idea that their daughter had converted from Christianity to Islam, nor that she had married a Muslim from out of town.

Mathilda Sinden, of Witpoortjie in Roodepoort, had met Erefaan Vallie Khan, of District Six in Cape Town, through a cellphone SMS dating service.

The two instantly hit it off and Mathilda, 25, travelled from the West Rand to Cape Town to marry the accused under Muslim customary law.


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