Thembisa residents concerned as murder toll rises in Ekurhuleni
In the latest incident, Boitumelo Mashita was shot dead in Thembisa on Monday morning.
The Thembisa Community Forum in Gauteng’s Ekurhuleni has expressed growing concern over a series of recent murders in the township. Recently, 23-year-old Boitumelo Mashita was shot dead in the area on Monday morning while en route to her workplace just before 6am. Authorities have now discovered a man suspected of killing Mashita dead inside his vehicle in Midrand, Johannesburg.
The forum's spokesperson, Xolani Mnisi, has voiced deep concern over the recent discoveries of multiple women who have been murdered around Thembisa. Mnisi stated, "As the Thembisa Community Forum, we are greatly concerned about the recent discoveries of multiple women around Thembisa, who have been murdered." Mnisi further added, "I think the incident from this morning (Monday) is the third, if not the fourth one, so we are really concerned about it and we are calling on the National Commissioner and the Premier of Gauteng, Panyaza Lesufi, to really stand up because we haven’t even seen him coming to Thembisa, which is his own township."
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