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‘Police failed to protect Soweto femicide victim’

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Gauteng Community Safety MEC Sizakhele Nkosi-Malobane says police should account for failing to protect Nomsa Maduna.

Maduna was shot and killed allegedly by her former boyfriend on Wednesday.

Nkosi-Malobane says they were informed about the abuse of the 39-year-old Soweto woman but they did not take the necessary action to protect her.

She says those who were supposed to deal with the case and arrest the perpetrator should account.

“We believe that something could have been done to protect and save the young woman’s life. If the police and the community acted immediately [Maduna would be alive today]. This is an old case of domestic violence. And I think it is important to also highlight that the family did raise the concerns with us about her life being at risk,” adds Nkosi-Malobane.

Meanwhile, on Thursday, MEC of Education Panyaza Lesufi, Social Development MEC Nandi Mayathula-Khoza and Nkosi-Malobane visited a family of another woman Sheila Mosidi Kopanye who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend in Hammanskraal.

 

Kopanye who is a mother of two was stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend last week Friday.

She had complained to her friends on Facebook that someone was stalking her weeks before she was brutally murdered.

In one of her Facebook posts, she urged men to accept and move on when the relationship was over.

A man from Mabopane has been arrested for the murder of Kopanye.

Kopanye was a clerk at the Temba Magistrate’s Court in Hammanskraal. –Additional reporting by Tshepiso Moche

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