Colleagues remember slain PMB nurse
About 500 people today filled the Edendale Hospital's Nurses Home Hall to remember sister Thabisile Doyisa.
The 46-year-old was shot dead as she arrived at her Napierville home in Pietermaritzburg home last week following her shift at work.
Family, friends and Department of Health officials attended an emotional memorial service for the slain nurse.
Hospital CEO Zanele Ndwandwe told mourners the advanced midwife had been at the peak of her career when she was taken away and called for a harsh sentence for her killer.
Health MEC Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo agrees.
"We want to call upon the justice system to do everything humanly possible - not only for this lady. We have lost three nurses in this district in a brutal way - killed by men - some of whom are very close to them and therefore I call for a harsher sentence in this brutal incident," he said.
Doyisa leaves behind four children aged between two and 11. Her policeman husband has been arrested in connection with her murder.
(Photos, above: Chanelle Lutchman, Thumbnail photo: Supplied)