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Missing student found dead

Missing poster for Ipeleng Moholane Picture Credit: CrimeLineZA
Missing poster for Ipeleng Moholane Picture Credit: CrimeLineZA

19-year-old Ipeleng Moholane was last seen on Saturday 16 May in Pretoria central.

Moholane was a student at the Midrand Graduate Institute and attended at their Randburg campus.

Her father called into talk radio station 702 for help in finding her. Soon posters went up wtith Ipeleng’s picture, description of what she was wearing and when she was last seen. 

10 days after news of her disappearance Crime Line South Africa tweeted that her body had been found in Midrand.   

Ipeleng’s body was found yesterday afternoon 25 of May.

“I think the killers killed her yesterday in the morning.” Isaac Moholane, her father, said in a telephonic interview with 702. 

Ipeleng is not the first MGI student to go missing and to be later reported dead. In 2013 Philisande Ngum(female also 19) and an MGI student was reported missing and later found dead in a veld near The Boulders Mall in Midrand.

Ngum’s mother paid a sum of R1500 ransom into her daughters account after a man called her from her daughter’s cell phone.

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