Image: Reuters[WARNING: GRAPHIC – THE FOLLOWING STORY CONTAINS GRAPHIC DETAILS THAT MAY OFFEND SENSITIVE READERS]before she was set alight at Lethabo Park, in Roodepan near Kimberley has succumbed to her injuries at a local hospital. The woman was accosted by three men who took her to a nearby veld and raped her before they set her alight.Tensions are simmering at the informal settlement following the brutal attack.
Eyewitnesses say she managed to extinguish the fire on her body and ran to the informal settlement to seek help. “We don’t have electricity, we don’t have much here but for women that something could happen to a woman like that, it’s very sad. It’s breaking to think it could happen to my daughter,” says a resident.
“I didn’t even think it was a lady. When my child called me I was thinking it was a man because my child told me it was a man that was stabbed ‘you must come and help’, and then I ran home and I called my boyfriend to come there. When he came in, it was a lady, naked and burnt, and was raped by three men,” says another.
Residents say they have appealed to the local Sol Plaatje Municipality to have electricity and sanitation.“It’s heartbreaking to come out and see what happened but it was terrifying. It was emotionally and mentally disturbing to me,” says resident Bryan Grond.
What type of wickedness is this? Some folks are beasts in human flesh.
I can't deal with this demonic activity. It's absolutely barbaric. What is happening to our beautiful country and the people in it?
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Ow Nkosi yam sfelani thina😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
The men who do this get away with it. They don’t care that they behave lime savages. Its barbaric behaviour!
So sad 😞😔
This crap must stop. Cops must do something including the Gov. Bring the death penalty back.
Wow💔💔
Oh. That's sad 😔
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What type of animals would do this? Please let's do the same to them when they are caught.
Yoh puksie1
Oh Kreste Morena!!!😭😭😭💔💔💔