QONCE – Police have arrested a 47-year-old man for the murder of his 37-year-old girlfriend. It is alleged that the girlfriend visited the man at Nonkcampa location outside Qonce for the Easter weekend. Reportedly the couple had an argument over a cellphone during the night of Thursday, 1 April 2021. He is said to have beaten his girlfriend with a stick. The woman later succumbed to her injuries.

The boyfriend kept the woman’s body inside his flat and dumped it in the outside toilet the next day. He only reported this incident on Monday, 5 April 2021 where he was arrested and charged with murder. He will appear before court soon.

Source: South African Police Service