Mpumalanga man arrested after surviving shack fire which killed girlfriend
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A 35-year-old Mpumalanga man was scheduled to appear in absentia before the Standerton Magistrate's Court on allegations of torching his 23-year-old girlfriend to death.
The woman died in a fire in a shack that the pair was in on Monday at the Sakhile township near Standerton, Mpumalanga police spokesman Brigadier Leonard Hlathi said in a statement.
“According to information, the suspect was last seen in a shack with his girlfriend. However his family members were shocked to realise that the very same shack the two were in, was burning,” he said.