Iyapha yamile
Iyapha Yamile’s family gets closure as killer, rapist gets 3 life sentences
Odwa Nkololo raped and killed the little girl in in Khayelitsha last May.
Odwa Nkololo has been hit with three life sentences for the rape and murder of four-year-old Iyapha Yamile and for sexually assaulting his girlfriend’s seven-year-old daughter.
Odwa Nkololo has also been found guilty of raping his girlfriend's young daughter last April in Khayelitsha.
Odwa Nkololo has been found guilty on two charges of rape.
The Democratic Alliance has released the statistics after receiving a parliamentary reply from the Police Minister.
The Western Cape has been rocked by numerous child killings over the past several years.
In June, charges against two men initially arrested for the little girl’s rape and murder were dropped in the Khayelitsha magistrates court.
The little girl's body was found in a local Informal settlement about two months ago.
Two men, who were accused of killing Iyapha Yamile, had rape and murder charges against them withdrawn in the Khayelistha Magistrates Court on Friday.
On Friday, charges against two men were dropped in the Khayelitsha Magistrates Court.
The National Prosecuting Authority's Eric Ntabazalila says DNA evidence could not link the pair to the attack.
Thabo Titus and Thabiso Mshanguta appeared in the Khayelitsha Magistrates Court on Friday morning.
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Danile Ngongoshe attends every court case at the Khayelitsha magistrates court, seeking justice for his 4-year-old daughter
Thabo Titus and Thabiso Mtshanguta were arrested shortly after the girl's body was found in a plastic bag in Khayelitsha.
This comes in the wake of the murders of several women and children in the country in recent weeks.
Three-year-old Courtney Pieters is one of 19 children who've been killed in the Western Cape since January.
The cousins, Athabile and Xoliswa Mafilika, have been in police custody since their arrest last year.
The body of little Iyapha Yamile was found stuffed in a plastic bag in the Town Two informal settlement on 1 May.