Scores of men and women who waved placards and sang protest songs for hours outside the East London magistrate’s court on Monday were disappointed when they learnt a man arrested for allegedly gunning down Zoleka Putye had been released on Sunday night.
Two families who were filled with grief when their relatives, Zoleka Gantana and her assistant Kholosa Mpunga, were kidnapped, shot and their bodies chopped up, burned and dumped in a dam in Peddie, are preparing to give bury their relatives.
Her mother-in-law never took her side, accused her of having an affair, and when she and her husband fought, he would always run to his mother’s house for comfort.