TWO WOMEN BRUTALLY MURDERED BY LOVERS

NHLANGANO – It was a sad day for Nhlangano yesterday as the town woke up to the shocking deaths of two women, who simultaneously increased the statistics of gender-based violence cases.
Reports are that both women were allegedly murdered by their lovers, through strangulation and beating within a space of hours in separate incidents.

The recent police statistics show that 31 women were murdered in 2016 under crimes of passion, with close to 3 000  cases of gender-based violence (GBV) reported during the same year.
One woman was killed at Maseyisini, west of Nhlangano, on Wednesday night, while the other one, who appeared to have also been raped, was murdered in a forest located at Nkoneni, east of Nhlangano.
This is despite numerous efforts by the country to put an end to the scourge.

The devastating report follows hot on the heels of the shocking death of another woman who was killed and further beheaded allegedly by her husband at Mehlwabovu, just recently.
In the first incident, a 22-year-old woman identified as Gcinile Dlamini from Maseyisini, was bludgeoned to death on Wednesday night, allegedly by her lover after the couple picked a quarrel at the man’s rented flat.
Information gathered was that the man had invited Gcinile, who was a shopkeeper at a local grocery outlet, into the house where he had been hired to look after church instruments at the request of a local pastor.
It is believed that after the couple had the misunderstanding, the man, who was apparently armed with a sjambock and what appeared like a plank, struck his girlfriend repeatedly while everyone else was enjoying their sleep in neighbouring flats.

Several broken pieces of timber that were found inside the house indicated that the plank was used to hit the woman numerous times until she met her death.
Relatives who were able to inspect her body after being called to the scene by the police, said she had several injuries to the head while her face was bruised.
Gcinile’s elder brother, who identified himself as Sanele Dlamini, said she also had visible lacerations around the neck. Other marks were noted on her back.
“It looked like she was beaten over a long period without anybody coming to her rescue,” observed the woman’s devastated sibling. Her alleged attacker is said to have called his employer to inform him that something bad had happened in the house.

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