Nomsa Buthelezi speaks on her near rape ordeal

Nomsa has opened up about the night she and her friend almost got raped.

Speaks to Drum she narrates the story of what went on that night.

While walking out of a friend’s party in Boksburg, east of Johannesburg Nomsa and another female friend were attacked by six knife-carrying men.

“It was the worst day of my life, I thought I was going to die,” she tears up.

“We were leaving and about to get into the car when these men robbed us of our belongings and tried to rape us. We kicked, screamed and fought.”

While trying to wrestle with the men Nomsa was stabbed in the eye. “I almost lost my eye, the scar you see on my character on Lockdown is real.”

Nomsa says she fought for her life: “I did not back down.”

The 35-year-old had been attending martial arts classes for her character Supermama in the film The Adventures of Supermama.

“I used some of the moves we had been taught for Supermamma and some of the guys managed to run away. They told me straight that they wanted to rape me,” she says.

She also revealed she is still shaken with that incident to date.