Child killings
Premier Mabuyane to visit family of slain girl (6) from Mdantsane
The little girl was attacked in Mdantsane last week while walking to a shop to buy sweets. The child’s body was later found in a bush along the road.
Little Duran Visagie was struck by a stray bullet earlier this month during what is believed to have been a gang-related shooting.
On Tuesday, Diego Booysen’s body was found in a car parked in a backyard at a home just a few doors from his own in Newtown.
He went missing along with a four-year-old girl on Monday.
Minenhle Mhlongo’s body was discovered in a bush close to her home on Heritage Day. She had been left in the care of a relative while her mother went to work the day before.
The little girl’s body was found in a bin in Lakeview, south of Johannesburg last week.
It’s understood the grim discovery was made by a man who was combing through some of the waste earlier in the afternoon.
The 42-year-old was arrested in 2018 in Greenvillage in Dobsonville, Soweto after she fed poisoned food to her children and later shot them with a service pistol.
The woman was arrested in 2018 in Greenvillage in Dobsonville, Soweto, after she fed poisoned food to her children, aged eight and 14.
The group stood on a road where they formed a human chain close to the local police station.
President Cyril Ramaphosa visited the little girl’s family amid a public outcry following the court appearance of 54-year old Mohydien Pangakaer.
The girl died on the way to hospital while her brother was shot in the leg and their mother was wounded in the stomach.
The body of 15-year-old Laticia Jansen from Graceland Education Center in Elsburg was discovered by community members in a bush on Friday.
The man was arrested after residents recognised him as the man who had been reported missing along with his son in November.
The decomposed body was discovered by a passerby on Sunday in Gelvandale.
The young girl was reported missing on Thursday after she failed to return home from school.
Zinhle Maditla pleaded guilty to four charges of murder.
Sentencing was handed down after the court last week found Reginald Bezuidenhoudt guilty as charged.
She was apprehended over the weekend after she allegedly bashed her little son with a rock in Jakkalswater in Nababeep.