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CRUEL KILLING: Maphefo Ngathu's body was mutilated.

 Woman allegedly paid her co-accused R10,000 for the killing 

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THE mother of a woman who was found murdered last week in the West Rand is still mourning her death.

Lettie Ngathu says all she wants is for justice to prevail.

"My daughter would never hurt a fly, let alone a person. These people must rot in jail," a tearful Lettie said on Sunday.

Mogale City police last Tuesday arrested four people in connection with the death of Maphefo Ngathu, whose body was found at Delpoton on June 4.

The gruesome find - her ears were cut off, the skin on the cranium removed, eyes gouged out and teeth missing - was made by members of a church who had gone to carry out a baptismal ceremony at a lake.

The woman's legs and arms were also found bound together.

Upon finding the body, the congregants called the police.

Detective Sam Lenka of Mogale City has since been tasked with leading the investigation.

Ngathu's body was taken to the Roodepoort mortuary.

Ngathu, 32, was a locomotive driver at the Rand Uranium Mine in Randfontein. Her body was identified by her distraught mother, who had travelled all the way from Bloemhof in North West after being informed of her daughter's murder.

It has since emerged in the Mogale City Magistrate's Court that Maphefo was kidnapped before she was killed.

It is alleged that the kidnapping was engineered by a woman named Tebogo Kwiniti, who had accused the deceased of having an affair with her lover, Rodgers Dlamini, a human resources officer at the Rand Uranium Mine.

Kwiniti appeared in court with her co-accused Simon Theletsane, Mirriam Mdlaka (a traditional healer) and Donald Mthimkhulu on June 5.

The four pleaded guilty and have been remanded in custody.

Kwiniti and Mdlaka are being held at Johannesburg Prison while Theletsane and Mthimkhulu are detained at another facility.

They will appear in court again on June 18 for a bail application.

Kwiniti allegedly paid her co-accused R10,000 to kill Ngathu.

After being abducted and killed in Lenasia, south of Johannesburg, her body was dumped at a lake.

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Wed Jun 19 06:50:30 SAST 2013 ::

Jun 11, 2012

rasefatee

People are brainless how could you just think of killing a person for lereete maaan we must just pray for the Government to recosider the Death Penalty this things should just come to an end rapist must just be custrated once
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Jun 11, 2012

Shredder

Now this is sc@ry. Ba ka tlo kgabella mot.ho so!!!


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Jun 11, 2012

Sgandy

Think SA is one country which need to have a Death Sentence..such a senseless killing..no maan where is our moral fiber gone..jail sentence for this shall never do any good...Rest In Peace Maphefo...yours was one of the gruesome deaths ever.
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Jun 11, 2012

Ms-B

May they all rot in jail, bloody satanists
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Jun 11, 2012

CheeseBoy

when I started reading I thought it was an ex boyfriend who did that but as I went on I thought no man, this is too much. A woman doing that to another woman. dzaaaaaaamn!!!
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Jun 11, 2012

sabza007

Why killl the innocent woman.She was proposed and she accepted.Nothing wrong with that.This woman who hired these killers will now loose her husband forever.No bail must given to all of them. I think even the body parts were removed while this woman was still alive. May her soul rest in peace.
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Jun 11, 2012

Lebetha

eix scary indeed!Hhw cn u chop a psen lyk tht some pple cruel strait
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Jun 11, 2012

Papage

So Sangoma also involved, I hate these people, how do youdo this to people, Dont rest until they die, my your spirit give them sleepless nights.
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Jun 11, 2012

lindsay

its not husband its a lover and you may find out the man is married to someone else not the murderer, but then with this selling of the cakes you may bet jealousy can exist and people will do anything to stay on top.
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Jun 11, 2012

Skopokopo

My deepest condolences to her family, no human deserve to die like this!,May Her Departed Soul Rest in Peace.
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