‘Bring back the death penalty’ – Twitter reacts to the murder of Limpopo teenager Kagiso Kale
South Africans are calling for decisive action to be taken by the government to stop the scourge of GBV in the country.
LIMPOPO – Twitter users have taken to the platform to express their dismay following the brutal murder of 17-year-old Kagiso Ramokone Kale. The Gr 12 learner was stabbed to death in a village outside Mokopane on Wednesday evening.
In tweets South Africans are asking for Gender-based-Violence to come to an end and for the President, Cyril Ramaphosa, to act before it is to late. Some users have even gone as far as to ask that the death penalty is brought back for those found guilty of crimes against women and children.
Waking up in South Africa to these gruesome and brutal murders of our fellow sisters is really disheartening! Our Government clearly doesn’t see the need to urgently tighten the laws and help us fight this battle against GBV😔
OUR SISTERS DON’T DESERVE THIS😰#JusticeforKagiso pic.twitter.com/W2nZDFKqJQ
— Kealeboga Mothobi (@_KealebogaMO) September 4, 2020
https://twitter.com/Master_Sandz/status/1301760981660569600
Enough is enough..bring back death penalty❗️❗️🇿🇦🇿🇦these monsters heartlessly murder women n children and then go spend tax payers money in jail😡#GBVmustfall #JusticeforKagiso pic.twitter.com/7ZTMva9pdB
— Cherub🧚♀️❤️ (@phili_KaKhumalo) September 4, 2020
Haibooo another one…honestly this hashtag is not helping anyone we will say "justice" till we die…they need to bring the death penalty back..so these monsters can think twice before killing us…instead of us wanting justice lets want death penalty qhaa #JusticeforKagiso pic.twitter.com/m5IgsLJe11
— 💕Sip_Witbooi_Ma'Dlodlo💕 (@MrsSipDlodlo) September 4, 2020
It’s deeply worrying how it seems like the value of lives of women is cheap in the eyes of men. Now even younger men are part of this great disgusting evil. GBV should be punished with the harshest sentences. We can’t go on like this.#JusticeForKagiso pic.twitter.com/0JYfrTw4RN
— #GOW23 #ThatName (@DrTumi_) September 4, 2020
Another one of us is gone.Different day,different name. Hashtag is trending and nothing is gonna be done about it as usual! Makes me wonder if I'm gonna make it to 2021 because none of us see it coming!!!💔💔😢😢😢#JusticeforKagiso pic.twitter.com/BsjXqpEVMi
— 👑Karabo (@karabo_mapaila) September 4, 2020
A 19-year-old man was arrested two hours of the attack. He is expected to appear in the Mokerong Magistrate’s Court soon on a charge of murder.
Read more: MEC calls for harsher sentences for GBV perpetrators following stabbing of Gr 12 learner Kagiso Kale
