Members of SAPS in Mokwakwaila and Tzaneen are investigating an inquest and murder cases after a 23-year-old woman was found murdered at Ga Femane village on Saturday, 25 November 2023 at about 17:40.
The suspect who was on the run after allegedly killing the 23-year-old, his lifeless body was found hanging at Khebabane village on Sunday, 26 November 2023.
According to the police report, they received information from community members that there is a person found dead at Femane village. When they arrived, they found the body of an African woman lying on the ground, facing up, with stabbed injuries on the neck.
It is alleged that the victim received a call from the suspect, who happened to be her boyfriend. They met and had drinks in Giyani town. They then went to the victim’s residence in Ga Femani village, wherein the suspect stabbed the victim with an unknown object and fled the scene.
Later on, the deceased sister received a call that the victim had been murdered.
Both deceased were identified as Maleboho Sebihleni (23) the victim and Sello Manyama (41) the suspect.
It is alleged that after he committed murder, he went to his other girlfriend’s residence in Khebabane village, outside Tzaneen, where he was residing with the second girlfriend, and apparently he hanged himself with an electric cable in a separate house on the same yard while the second girlfriend was asleep in the other house.
The police are investigating the inquest and murder cases.
The Provincial Commissioner of the South African Police Service in Limpopo, Lieutenant General Thembi Hadebe has strongly condemned the gender-based violence incident leading to death and called upon the Limpopo communities to accelerate actions to end the scourge.
Police investigations are still continuing.
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