BLIND MAN HELD FOR GOGO’S MURDER

Hilltop – It was a bloody past week! This sums up the past five days in the country where four people were gruesomely murdered in different incidents. Notably, all the victims are women and their deaths occurred on the week where the world was celebrating International Women’s Day.

While the nation was still reeling in shock over the death of two teenagers from Mahwalala, who were allegedly raped and killed by a gardener from the neighbourhood, it has since emerged that a visually impaired man from Hilltop brutally ended the life of his grandmother aged 80, who was a traditional healer.

Coincidentally, the homestead from which the old woman’s life was ended is situated about two kilometres from the location where the bodies of the two girls were discovered.
Timile Nhlabatsi and Sebenele Gama, both 13 years old, went missing at Masamketini, in Mahwalala last Saturday (March 2).

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The bodies of the teenagers were discovered by community members of Masamketini in Mahwalala after a search which lasted almost the whole day. Both girls were pupils at Nkwalini Primary School and their lifeless bodies were discovered on Thursday night in separate locations.
Sebenele’s decomposed body was discovered half-naked in the gardener’s one-room stick and mud flat and it was hidden under the bed. Her underwear was reportedly around her knees and her T-shirt was lifted up to her chest, exposing her breasts.
The body of Sebenele, who was a Grade VI pupil, was found with a gashing wound in the head. This resulted in members of the community and the police inferring that a sharp object might have been used to end her life.

Meanwhile, Timile, who was doing Grade VI, was also discovered half naked in a forest situated about a stone’s throw away from Sihlongonyane’s place of abode. Timile was a third-born child in a family of three. 
According to Lucky Lukhele, who is a community police member, Timile’s left eye was found hanging out of its socket. This raised suspicion that her killer might have gouged her eye out in an attempt to conceal evidence. 

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The girls’ lifeless bodies were discovered on the same day the old woman was killed by her partially blind grandson.
In the recent incident, Sabelo Ngomane (40) has since been arrested and charged with the murder of his grandmother and he yesterday appeared at the Mbabane Magistrates Court.
According to the charge sheet, Ngomane is alleged to have killed the old woman by assaulting her with a stick several times all over the head.
Another incident which was reported in the past week was that of a man who was arrested for allegedly killing his nine- month-old daughter at Simunye, Lusoti Village on Friday.

According to sources close to the matter, the child’s mother went to the man’s workplace to enquire about the minor’s maintenance. The woman, who lost her child, is from Moneni in Manzini and is aged 27.  The suspect is also 27 years old.
In another occurrence at Buka in Ezulwini, a woman was reportedly killed and kept inside a rented bedsitter by her lover.  Her cold body was discovered by members of the Royal Eswatini Police Service on Thursday.
The discovery of the woman’s body was made after the accused confided to a relative that he had killed his lover whom he allegedly strangulated to death. It was alleged that the accused had initially gone to his relative to seek assistance as he allegedly intended to secretly remove the corpse out of the house.

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