{"id":10509,"date":"2013-09-20T07:40:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T07:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10509"},"modified":"2013-09-20T07:40:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T07:40:17","slug":"outrage-at-lenasia-womens-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10509","title":{"rendered":"Outrage at Lenasia women&#8217;s murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Murder_title.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5670\" alt=\"Murder_title\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Murder_title-300x207.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Murder_title-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Murder_title-190x130.jpg 190w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Murder_title.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The murders of two elderly women in Lenasia this week is disturbing, Gauteng community safety MEC Faith Mazibuko said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Such an act of criminality does not only rob the families and their grandchildren of their beloved ones but demonstrates cowardness,&#8221; she said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This case should receive the highest attention by the criminal justice system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Wednesday, the bodies of two elderly women were found in a house they shared in Lenasia extension 11.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gauteng police spokesman Warrant Officer Kay Makhubela said a relative found the women, aged 70 and 75.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;One of the old ladies, who was full of blood, was found in the sitting room. The other was found dead in a bedroom,&#8221; he said at the time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The motive for the killings was unknown and the weapon used had not yet been identified. Both women suffered head wounds, and one had strangulation bruises.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We cannot rule out that there might have been rape, but that will be determined by the investigation,&#8221; Makhubela said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mazibuko urged people to contact police if they had information about the crime. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The murders of two elderly women in Lenasia this week is disturbing, Gauteng community safety MEC Faith Mazibuko said on Thursday. &#8220;Such an act of criminality does not only rob the families and their grandchildren of their beloved ones but demonstrates cowardness,&#8221; she said in a statement. &#8220;This case should receive the highest attention by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10509\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Outrage at Lenasia women&#8217;s murder&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[34,5895,1091,40,36],"class_list":["post-10509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-crime","tag-faith-mazibuko","tag-lenasia","tag-murder","tag-rape"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Murder_title.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10513,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10509\/revisions\/10513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}