Gugulethu residents made a grim discovery when they woke up and found the body of a 34-year-old woman lying on a pathway.
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Neighbours made a grim discovery when they woke up early on Monday and found the body of a 34-year-old woman lying in a pathway between two shacks in Kanana informal settlement in Gugulethu.
Zuzeka Sojona was found with multiple stab wounds, a head injury and with her pants pulled down to her knees just metres away from her own shack just after 5am.
Police spokesman Tembinkosi Kinana said no arrests had beenj made and a murder docket had been opened.
Police could not yet confirm whether Sojona had been raped, Kinana said.
“They phoned me and told me there was a fire… Then they told me my sister was murdered.
“When I got there, I couldn’t believe it. I was just crying and in shock,” Mongikazi Sojona said.
“Her (Zuzeka’s) seven-year-old child lives in the Eastern Cape with our older sister. It was just the two of us here. We were very close,” she said.
According to neighbours, Zuzeka Sojona was last seen with two men at a nearby shebeen on Sunday night.
Community leader Thuliswa Bulani said the lack of blood spatter at the scene lead them to believe her body had been dumped after the attack occurred elsewhere.
Meanwhile, Nyanga police have requested assistance in locating a 41-year-old man in connection with a rape and stabbing case that occurred on January 19.
Police spokesman FC van Wyk said Dalixolo Kontyo was allegedly drunk when he asked a 42-year-old woman for a place to sleep.
He said the woman, who is known to him, allowed him to sleep in the lounge of her home.
Later that night, the woman was stabbed in the hand and raped. Van Wyk said Kontyo is still at large.
Van Wyk said Kontyo was last seen at his home at Kalu Street in Hazeldene, Philippi.
* Anyone with information can call CrimeStop confidentially at 08600 10111 or Constable Siziwe Piti-Ndwandwa at 073 734 9456 or 021 3769850.
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Cape Times