The Tembisa police have arrested the mother of three-year-old boy Terminator Khoza who went missing in August and was later found dead inside a parked car on September 13.
The mother, Nwabisa Nkazana, was arrested along with her friend and co-accused Thandazile Shushu this past Friday and they were both charged with murder.
The pair briefly appeared in the Tembisa Magistrate’s Court on Monday and were remanded in custody with bail hearing to be heard next on October 17 at the same court.
This paper first reported on the missing boy in August after he was reported missing at the Rabasotho Police Station.
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And after days of searching, his lifeless body was found in a parked car in a yard in Madelakufa Section.
The new political party the African Transformation Movement (ATM) has called for the death penalty for domestic-violence offenders.
Speaking after the court proceedings, the ATM’s Ekurhuleni North chairperson, Nomsa Baba, said the only solution to these crimes is the death penalty.
“As an organisation, we can no longer sit and watch our children and women being slaughtered like sacrificial lambs.
“We would like to call for justice to take its course and protect our children and women. Our proposal as a political movement is to bring back the death penalty so that these criminals and people in general will be afraid to take the life of another human being. If we can bring back the death penalty, I am certain we will see less of these senseless killings of our children and women,” said Baba.
She said she understands that the matter of the death of the three-year-old boy is sub judice, since it is now in the hands of the courts, but said their organisation is not passing judgment on anyone.
“We are not here to pass judgment on anyone. All we want is justice for the little child who was found dead. We will support whatever verdict the court sees fit,” she said.
Another ATM member, Goodwill Philiso, said: “How many more must die before our government starts listening to us? How many must die before they bring back the death penalty? It’s been too long since we have been talking about the death penalty, but we are not seeing any movement or action from the government, which means they are not bothered by this. Funny enough, they are the ones who put up posters and placards with messages against violence against children and women, but when they have to do one simple thing to bring back the death penalty they are nowhere to be found.”
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