The Western Cape’s Community Safety MEC, Albert Fritz will visit the family of Sinovuyo Magatya on Thursday.
18-year-old Magatya from Khayelitsha
disappeared after leaving a shebeen with a friend, last
week. Her body was discovered in Makhaza.
A 30-year-old suspect was arrested in
connection with her murder.
‘’The suspect initially denied any knowledge or
involvement and actually accompanied the family to people he said he saw
Sinovuyo leave the shebeen with in Makhaza. After Sinovuyo’s cellphone was
found at the suspect’s home, police went back and arrested him, whereupon they
discovered a bloody towel. Sinovuyo’s body was then found, hours later, in an
abandoned shack also belonging to the suspect.’’
Furthermore, Magatya’s cellphone was found at
the suspect’s home, after police returned to the suspects residence and
arrested him, where upon they discovered a towel covered in blood.
MEC Fritz condemned the incident.
“I want to condemn the actions of the people
who committed these heinous acts in the strongest possible terms. It is people
like this, people who carry out these gruesome acts of gender-based violence,
who rob our women of living out their freedom. It is an attack on humanity, and
we cannot accept it. We will not accept this.”
‘’…every time a young person such as Sinovuyo
is killed so senselessly and in such a depraved way, it affects me because I
see a young person, full of life and energy, with so much to offer in building
our society, taken away from us. A flame is extinguished,’’ Fritz added.
Done By: Mitchum George
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