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Capetown; S. Africa: British businessman Shrien Dewani agreed to pay 15,000 rand ($1,340) to have his wife killed on their honeymoon in South Africa, a witness told a court on Wednesday, saying he had been asked to make the murder look like a hijacking.
Mziwamadoda Qwabe, a South African who is serving 25 years in jail for murdering Anni Dewani, told Cape Town's High Court that taxi-driver Zola Tongo had asked him to participate in a job for "a husband that wanted a wife to be killed".
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