JOHANNESBURG - Women, Children and People with Disabilities Minister, Lulu Xingwana, reminded authorities that the perpetrators were “Murderers on the loose”.
 
“For as long as they are still roaming our streets, our children are not safe,” the minister said.

The bodies of Bafana Kekana, nine, Hosea Richard Kekana, 10, and Johana Kekana, 12, were discovered by a passerby near the Constantia resort in Mookgopong on Saturday.

The trio’s hands and feet were tied up with shoe laces, the girl was believed to have been raped before all of them were stoned to death.

“This extreme form of brutality against innocent children must never go unpunished. I urge the law enforcement agencies to ensure that those found guilty face the full wrath of the law,” Xingwana said.

President Jacob Zuma, strongly condemned what he described as the “ruthless killing of orphaned children”.

“Such outrageous and inhuman action against defenceless children is a gross violation of the right to human life as enshrined in the Constitution. I am deeply dismayed by this heartless and inexplicable cruelty on children,” the presidency quoted Zuma as saying.

President Zuma also urged the law enforcement agencies to work around the clock to ensure that those responsible for the criminal act were brought to justice.

The Democratic Alliance (DA) in the province called on to Limpopo police to make the investigation  their number one priority.

“The shocking brutality of this triple murder and rape cannot go unpunished,”  DA’s education spokesman, Van der Walt said in a statement.