Stabbed repeatedly in the face and body with a screwdriver, and then nearly strangled with her own underwear, Jane Seremane was left for dead in a ditch.
Miraculously, she survived, but she lost her unborn baby and can't see with her left eye as a result of the attack.
As she gave testimony in the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday in the case against alleged serial killer Richard Nyauza, 36, Seremane confessed that she hated him and wished she could kill him.
She told Judge John Murphy: "He is the man who did it to me."
Asked how she felt about her ordeal, she said: "I relive this incident every day. When I look at him I wish I can immediately take away his life."
At this point, Nyauza burst into fits of laughter.
Nyauza is accused of murdering 16 women. Five bodies were found in 2002 and 11 in 2006. Most of them remained unidentified, and in nearly all the cases they were found naked or semi-naked.
The causes of death varied from strangulation to drowning. But in most cases the bodies were so decomposed that it was impossible to determine the cause of death. It is also claimed that Nyauza raped some of his victims before killing them.
He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
Seremane said that on August 17 last year she was standing in front of the police station in Magaliesburg on her way to Botswana, when Nyauza offered her a lift.
They went to a nearby farm where he had to drop off animal feed on the back of his bakkie. Thereafter he took a dirt road, then suddenly stopped the vehicle and attacked her, the court heard.
The trial continues.