Country's femicide list keeps growing

"South Africa femicide rate is five times more than the global rate," minister of arts and culture Nathi Mthethwa was quoted addressing a femicide imbizo in June 2017.February 2017: Priska Schalk, 29,

was found handcuffed and lying in a pool of blood at her Joburg CBD home on Commissioner Street. She had been stabbed to death by her husband Zacharia Mojela, 28. He used several knives, and two of them were still lodged in her chest when her body was discovered. Mojela was given a 20-year imprisonment.died at the hands of her boyfriend Sandile Mantsoe. Karabo's remains were found in a ditch not far away from Mantsoe's mother's house in Lyndhurst, Johannesburg.

a Unisa student, was shot dead at a student residence in Vanderbijlpark, south of Johannesburg, by her ex-lover Lebohang Mofokeng, 30. In May, Mofokeng was handed a life sentence for the murder. He was also sentenced to five years' imprisonment for theft, four years for possession of a firearm and 18 months for possession of illegal ammunition.was found dead with her eyes gouged out at the Soul City informal settlement on the West Rand.

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