Yeshika Singh will have a grandstand seat at the Soccer World Cup final in Berlin on Sunday, while her former fiancee, convicted murderer Donovan Moodley, watches the game through the bars of Johannesburg prison.
And, she "needs to find herself a good man" in the process - with Moodley's blessing.
The convicted murderer, who was sentenced to life imprisonment almost a year ago for the 2004 kidnap and murder of Sandton student Leigh Matthews, who was shot dead after her family paid a R50 000 ransom for her, said in an exclusive interview this week that he hopes he will be a free man, though, before then.
Life behind bars for the past 21 months had been "very horrible", so traumatic in fact that he had been unable to write down his experiences.
He intends applying to the Johannesburg High Court for a retrial in the next two weeks, on the basis that the investigating officer in the Matthews case, crack detective Superintendent Piet Beyleveld, was not only dishonest in the way he handled the case, but deliberately skewed public opinion by releasing selective information to the media.
Moodley, who is widely believed not to have acted alone, claimed three months after his sentencing that he had had accomplices and that he had been framed.
More recently he accused Beyleveld of ignoring information he had passed on to him about his accomplices.
In an email passed on to the Weekend Argus's sister newspaper, The Star, last week, Moodley said: "I had told (Beyleveld) the truth two days after my arrest, which implicates others, the truth which he failed to put on record because he said it was untrue.
"Twenty-one months of my life has (sic) already been lost because he failed to follow through on leads I gave him."
Moodley said: "I am fighting for my freedom here and I don't want to do a trial through the media. Piet Beyleveld is a powerful man, he walks in and out of the prison as he likes and if you guys want a story, you must start with him."
Moodley claimed what had happened in court was "all a show for the public. (Only when) Piet decides to be honest, will you know what really happened".
He said he had hired a private investigator and vowed that when this dossier was complete, Beyleveld would be charged with perjury for lying in court.
"We are at a very critical point and the investigation is now complete. The private investigator is just drawing up the papers so it would be very foolish of me to start talking about the investigation now," he said.
Beyleveld said nothing Moodley did or said surprised him.
"It looks like he's enjoying himself now with the media. I am not here to judge him but I am fulfilling my duties towards this country, and does he think I'm going to stop? Never," said Beyleveld.
Moodley said that Singh was in Germany, enjoying the Soccer World Cup - a trip that could easily have cost R50 000, according to travel agents.
He said it was unfair of the media to be still linking Singh to him and said they had called off their engagement because "I am serving a life sentence and she needs to find herself a good man. She is facing reality".
"She will never find a good man if you (the media) are still linking her to me and my case. I mean, no man will want to be associated with her if you are continuing like this," said Moodley.
However, he said they were still good friends and "I talk to her whenever I need somebody to talk to".
"It is not as if she abandoned me, she is just facing reality. I'm rather uncomfortable talking about her because she was just an unfortunate victim in this whole thing."
Singh could not be reached for comment. Her family was not prepared to speak.
Moodley also lashed out at the psychologist who labelled him an attention-seeker, saying: "It is rather unfortunate for somebody with such a high level of education to make an assessment of someone she has never met. It's pathetic."
Rob Matthews, Leigh's father, refused to say anything about Moodley but thanked the newspaper for letting him know what the murderer of his daughter thinks.
"I don't have anything to say about that," said Matthews.