Just hours after President Cyril Ramaphosa called for life sentences for men found guilty of crimes against women and children, two more women were brutally murdered.
Pretty Nwabisa Mthumeni, 31, died on Friday after being admitted to hospital with a gunshot wound.
Cops say Nwabisa, 31, and her boyfriend, 33, were attacked at their home in Site C, Khayelitsha, by unknown suspects in the early hours of Friday
morning.
The boyfriend was shot and wounded while Nwabisa was kidnapped and taken to Wolfgat Nature Reserve.
It is believed Nwabisa was shot in the mouth and that a TV was taken from the house.
The boyfriend was also admitted to hospital with critical injuries but survived the attack.
Police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Andre Traut explains: “The circumstances surrounding a murder and an attempted murder are being investigated by police.
Nwabisa Mthumeni, 31, died on Friday after being admitted to hospital with a gunshot wound. Picture supplied
“(Friday) morning at around 2am, a 33-year-old man was shot and wounded at his residence in Site C Khayelitsha by unknown suspects.
“His 31-year-old girlfriend was kidnapped from the residence by the suspects and dropped off at the Wolfgat Nature Reserve with extensive injuries.
“Both victims were admitted to hospital where the 31-year-old female succumbed to death.
“The motive is yet to be determined and no one has been arrested as yet.”
Police were then called to a second crime scene in Gugulethu where the body of an unidentified woman was found bludgeoned to death with a concrete block.
Angry women with placards reading “Together we can end violence against women and children” stood at the scene.
Angry women with placards reading protesting at the scene where a body of a woman was found in Gugulethu. Picture: Brendan Magaar/African News Agency(ANA)
According to police, an eyewitness saw someone in a vehicle dropping off the body next to Lwazi Primary School on Friday morning.
The woman was dressed in a white jacket, socks and pants, and was found lying in a pool of blood with the brick over her face.
Traut says cops have yet to identify the woman: “The circumstances surrounding the death of an unknown female believed to be in her thirties are being investigated after her body was discovered this morning in Gugulethu.
“According to an eyewitness report, a vehicle was seen dropping off the body next to Lwazi Primary School in NY112.
The body of a woman was found in Gugulethu during the early hours of Friday morning. Picture: Brendan Magaar/African News Agency(ANA)
“The motive is yet to be established and arrests are yet to be made.”
On Thursday, Ramaphosa addressed thousands of women outside Parliament who were protesting against gender-based violence following a spike in femicide.
The president said he would be setting the ball rolling to change the law.