JOHANNESBURG — The South African man who drove a Swedish bride to her death after allegedly being hired by her British husband to kill her on their honeymoon pleaded guilty Wednesday to the slaying and received a 25-year prison sentence after offering chilling details about the killing.

Mziwamadoda Qwabe, 27, described in a statement how he wore yellow gloves to avoid leaving fingerprints the November 2010 night he and alleged accomplice Xolile Mngeni kidnapped and killed Anni Dewani. Qwabe said he helped carry out the killing of the 28-year-old bride for about $2,100, and said he knew that her husband, Shrien Dewani, paid for the slaying and wanted her dead.

While Shrien Dewani fights extradition to South Africa and continues to deny he orchestrated the killing, Qwabe’s testimony offers a second account implicating him in the death.

Judge John Hlophe of the Western Cape High Court accepted Qwabe’s guilty plea on charges of kidnapping, robbery, murder, and illegal possession of a firearm, sentencing him to 25 years in prison. Lawyers and prosecutors also met with Mngeni, who will return to court Monday for the possible start of his trial over Dewani’s killing, said Eric Ntabazalila, a spokesman for South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority.

Qwabe and Mngeni’s trial has been postponed several times because of Mngeni’s poor health. Mngeni had surgery to remove a brain tumor in June 2011.

The Dewanis were honeymooning in South Africa in November 2010, only two weeks after their marriage, when Shrien Dewani allegedly asked taxi driver Zola Tongo if he knew of anyone who could kill his wife, investigators say. A third man put Qwabe and Tongo in touch, and they planned to fake a car hijacking, Qwabe said.

‘‘The kidnapping and robbery were part of the plan to make it appear that this was a random criminal act, unconnected to [Tongo] and the husband,’’ Qwabe’s statement read.