More than a week after Zintle Xabanisa, 21, was killed and her body dumped in Bloekombos, her reeling family are still waiting for police to make an arrest.
SAPS spokesperson Captain FC Van Wyk said police responded to a call out on Sunday July 7 and found the body of a woman.
“The victim was declared deceased on the scene by the medical personnel,” he said, adding that Kraaifontein SAPS were investigating a case of murder.
Monwabisi Jonas, the father of the deceased woman, who stays in Wallacedene, said his daughter left on Saturday evening to meet friends. The family discovered later that she met her boyfriend at a tavern.
Mr Jonas said Zintle allegedly took her boyfriend’s house keys and left for his home but her boyfriend stayed behind at the tavern.
Three of her boyfriend’s friends left with her. The men told him that they seperated from her later during the journey and that that that was the last time they saw her. Her half-naked body was found the next morning, her father said. Her face and body were bruised and she was also allegedly raped.
Mr Jonas said they were planning to take the body to their home in Tlokoeng, formally Mount Fletcher, in the Eastern Cape.
“I am feeling a great pain. We want to take the body home and bury it there but I am not working and I don’t know what we will do now,” he said.
Ward 6 councillor Siviwe Nodliwa organised residents in a show solidarity with the family on Sunday afternoon.
Police told Northern News yesterday that there were no new developments in the case.
The community leader and chairperson of Wallacedene Development Forum, Mkholisi Mpukumpa expressed disappointment that no arrests had yet been made.
“We are condemning the police for not arresting anyone up until now because there were men who left the tavern with her. Why are the police not questioning those men because they were the last people to see her alive,” he said.
Anyone with information can call Crime Stop on 08600 10111.
