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KILLED REPORTS have emerged recently of more women found murdered in Gauteng. Gauteng police are investigating after the bodies of four women were discovered at the weekend in and around Soweto. Friends Bongeka Phungula and Popi Qwabe were murdered in Naledi and Tladi. In another incident, the body of Lerato Moloi was discovered, also in Naledi at the weekend, while a fourth body was found at a dumping site in Mofolo. This comes as 11 men are expected to appear in the Johannesburg magistrate court on Wednesday morning in connection with the kidnapping and rape of a pregnant woman. The 22-year-old woman was walking home from work with a male colleague in the city centre, in the early hours of Monday morning, when she
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FIKILE MBALULA was attacked. The police’s Xoli Mbele says: “A co-worker alerted the police which led to the arrest and retrieval of the victim’s body.” The body of a young woman was also found near Klerksdorp at the weekend. Meanwhile, 22-year-old Karabo Mokoena who was buried this past weekend, whose boyfriend has been arrested for her murder, will be remembered at a memorial service on Wednesday. Minister of social development Bathabile Dlamini said her killer knew he could not kill her confidence and decided to kill her instead. She was speaking at Karabo’s funeral service held at the Diepkloof Multipurpose Hall in Soweto. “Our children are being raised in times that are different from ours. They love money… They are materialistic. Our children don’t see when they
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KILLED are being abused psychologically‚” said Dlamini. “But Karabo had strong confidence and he realised that the only thing is for her to go because she wouldn’t listen to him‚” said Dlamini. At the same time, Police Minister Fikile Mbalula says he’s extremely concerned about the rising number of attacks on women. “The fact that now it involves deaths… and women are vulnerable and defenceless. It is easy to take a life of a woman, for whatever reasons that the perpetrators might deem to be. But this has been going on for some time.” In another incident that shock the county earlier in the week, former Generation actor and radio DJ, Mandla Hlatswayo and his friend were shot and killed while trying to protect women from robbers who were trying to rob them. Hlatswayo was also buried this past weekend-www.ewn.co.za