THE family of a 15-year-old girl has told how her abusive boyfriend butchered her in front of them and then licked the blood off the knife.
Zandile Xaki, who was five months pregnant, was stabbed several times after she broke up with her 23-year-old boyfriend.
The teenager's funeral took place on Saturday. She was attacked on April 7 and spent three weeks at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital. She died on May 1.
Problems allegedly started on the night of the stabbing when the man tried to demolish the family's shack at the Holomisa informal settlement in Klipspruit, Soweto, where Zandile stayed with her mother Nomawethu Xaki and two siblings.
Xaki said the boyfriend ran up to the teenager and stabbed her three times - twice in the back and once in the heart - before he fled.
"To show that he had planned to kill Zandile, after stabbing her he licked the knife and spat her blood in her face," Xaki said.
"He stabbed her right in front of me and my other young children."
Zandile was rushed to hospital where she later died.
Xaki said her daughter had lost all hope of surviving and seemed to have accepted the fact that she was going to die. She said she was sorry, the heartbroken mother said.
"I never approved of the relationship because the man was much older than my daughter.
"I work for Pikitup as a driver and the man would visit my daughter while I was at work," Xaki said.
Zandile's friends said they never liked the boyfriend and said he was very abusive.
"We went to the police station on several occasions to report the abuse. When police got to his home, his family hid him and the police left without finding him," the friends said.
"My daughter wanted to get a protection order against him but was told by police that they did not issue them during weekends," Xaki said.
Xaki was, however, relieved after the investigating officer Dlulo Dlamini told her that the man had been seen in Mzimkhulu, KwaZulu-Natal, on Monday.
The KZN SAPS media centre said their records did not indicate that a man had been arrested for the crime.
Dlamini said he could not talk as he was driving to Durban. Police are also looking for Muziwamadoda Xiya to help with investigations. - nkosin@sowetan.co.za
Killer licks knife and spits in her face
THE family of a 15-year-old girl has told how her abusive boyfriend butchered her in front of them and then licked the blood off the knife.
Zandile Xaki, who was five months pregnant, was stabbed several times after she broke up with her 23-year-old boyfriend.
The teenager's funeral took place on Saturday. She was attacked on April 7 and spent three weeks at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital. She died on May 1.
Problems allegedly started on the night of the stabbing when the man tried to demolish the family's shack at the Holomisa informal settlement in Klipspruit, Soweto, where Zandile stayed with her mother Nomawethu Xaki and two siblings.
Xaki said the boyfriend ran up to the teenager and stabbed her three times - twice in the back and once in the heart - before he fled.
"To show that he had planned to kill Zandile, after stabbing her he licked the knife and spat her blood in her face," Xaki said.
"He stabbed her right in front of me and my other young children."
Zandile was rushed to hospital where she later died.
Xaki said her daughter had lost all hope of surviving and seemed to have accepted the fact that she was going to die. She said she was sorry, the heartbroken mother said.
"I never approved of the relationship because the man was much older than my daughter.
"I work for Pikitup as a driver and the man would visit my daughter while I was at work," Xaki said.
Zandile's friends said they never liked the boyfriend and said he was very abusive.
"We went to the police station on several occasions to report the abuse. When police got to his home, his family hid him and the police left without finding him," the friends said.
"My daughter wanted to get a protection order against him but was told by police that they did not issue them during weekends," Xaki said.
Xaki was, however, relieved after the investigating officer Dlulo Dlamini told her that the man had been seen in Mzimkhulu, KwaZulu-Natal, on Monday.
The KZN SAPS media centre said their records did not indicate that a man had been arrested for the crime.
Dlamini said he could not talk as he was driving to Durban. Police are also looking for Muziwamadoda Xiya to help with investigations. - nkosin@sowetan.co.za
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