A WOMAN died after she was ripped to pieces after apparently being hacked, beaten and set upon by dogs. According to the Daily News, the mother of two, Nomthandazo Mpangase (32), was to have been a bridesmaid at a friend’s wedding and was going to town for a dress fitting last Tuesday when she was ambushed.
A man known to her has been arrested in connection with her death and appeared briefly in the Harding Magistrate’s Court on March 7, said police spokesman Captain Thulani Zwane. He is due back in court tomorrow (Friday).
Nomthandazo’s distraught father, Bernard Radebe, told the Daily News that he received a call on Tuesday last week to go to the village of Santombe, where his children lived. “I was told my daughter was hurt. I thought she may have been in a taxi crash.”
A local councillor and neighbour, Mnyamezela Dlamini, said he called Mr Radebe and then drove around the area looking for him. He found him and they drove to the scene together. “When we turned into the road, we saw her shoes. He (Mr Radebe) whimpered: ‘Oh God, my daughter is dead.’
“About 10 metres on, we passed her bag, then about 20 metres from there, her body, covered in a blanket.” Mr Dlamini said a crowd had surrounded Nomthandazo’s body and paramedics had kept them at bay. But after telling them he was with her father, they let them through the wall of people, some of them strangers.
“Her legs were on the road and the rest of her body on the grass,” said Mr Dlamini. “When we uncovered her, the flesh on her legs had been torn out, there were dog bite marks all over them. Her head was a mess. She had a gaping hole in the back of it and blood was everywhere.”
Mr Radebe, who runs a traditional medicine stall in the town, said, “I have never seen such a thing. My daughter was all cut up like a piece of meat. We buried her on Saturday but even now I feel like someone will come and tell me it did not happen. Everything in me hurts,” he said.
