Year in and year out, incidents of gender-based violence and femicide in the Eastern Cape read like the script of a horror movie. The crime statistics released by police minister Bheki Cele quarterly attest to the magnitude of the problem in the province.
An East London man who, after drinking two beers at a local shebeen, suffocated and slit the throat of his ex-girlfriend’s six-year-old son on suspicion that the boy was not his, has pleaded guilty to the murder.
Scores of Bhongweni community members blocked Commissioner Street outside the East London Magistrate's Court on Thursday to oppose bail for the killer of little Sinobom Tywantsi, 6.
A 37-year-old East London man has been arrested for the alleged murder of his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son. Sinobom Tywantsi’s body was found in the bushes at Bhongweni township, near East London's King Phalo Airport on Tuesday afternoon. Provincial SAPS spokesperson, Warrant Officer Majola Nkohli said: “The suspect [allegedly] went to the house of the mother and fetched the child, Sinobom Tywantsi, who was playing with other children at the time.