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 The day-mother's body was found under a carpet in an outside room.

The baby was found under a bed in the main house.

Parents of baby had waited 8 years to have a child 

Mpumalanga police are searching for those responsible for the murder of a day-mother and a five-month-old baby boy in Delmas.  

“We have no information, and there have been no arrests. We are still looking for possible leads,” Lt-Col Leonard Hlathi said.

The woman and the child were found strangled in her home in Delmas on Wednesday.

The baby’s mother repeatedly phoned the 66-year-old woman’s house, and became concerned when there was no answer.

The day-mother’s body was found under a carpet in an outside room. The baby was found under a bed in the main house.

The motive for the murders was not known.

Beeld newspaper on Thursday named the day-mother as Margrietha de Goede.

It said Rieta and Wiets Botes, the parents of the slain baby, Wiehan, had waited eight years to have a child.

According to the newspaper another baby, 18-months-old, who was also in De Goede’s care, was found crying but unharmed in the house.

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Sun May 19 06:30:07 SAST 2013 ::

May 24, 2012

MommaC

Then these monsters go home and sleep at night?
For what do you murder an old lady and a baby?
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May 24, 2012

freshpack

the valid reason for death penalty to return......SUCH PPL BELONG IN THE GRAVE YARD
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May 24, 2012

TheMrs01

We are a sick society, i just cant imagine anyone doing this to a child.. God help us please!
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May 24, 2012

Tsaaa

disturbing serious, not ka ngwana bathong,5 months old,
mme wa batho shem.
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May 24, 2012

Dusc

Sick catch them and let them rot t these couple waited 8 years for this baby May God be with them and help them to c@atch the crimin@ls they are idi@ts I will ki]l them with my hands C0me on An c Womens league help us here march intill they catch them
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May 24, 2012

gossipgirl

OMG people r thirsty for blood out there, batho bahwile debete kamotle...Modimo bathuse hle
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May 24, 2012

RobinH

This sort of incomprehensible, senseless violent crime is now so common we are almost immune to shock. That, to me, is even more shocking!
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May 24, 2012

Firefly

Woza December 21. This shitty world must end. Nxa.
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May 24, 2012

CheeseBoy

and you wonder why some of us support mob justice.
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May 24, 2012

Uppercut

Can we rather march naked contesting against this senseless killings to the constitutional court than marching to good man gallery.
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