LIMPOPO – The 35-year-old Portia Ramakhavhi was murdered during a domestic-violence related incident at Tshino location, Vuwani in December 2019. Following her murder, a good Samaritan Zorha Khan pledged to build a house for her family and her two children, aged 6 and 10. This promise has now been realised and this week the MEC for Social Development, Nkakareng Rakgoale, Speaker of the Legislature, Mavhungu Lerhuli-Rhamakhanya and the Makhado Local Municipality Mayor, Samuel Munyai conducted a sod turning ceremony at the site where the house is to be built.
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Ramakhavhi was murdered on Saturday, 7 December and reports at the time indicated that the deceased’s boyfriend had stabbed and hacked her to death during a heated argument in which he had accused her of cheating. He left the scene and local residents pursued him until they caught him and beat him up. The police were then notified and he was arrested and taken to hospital where he was admitted under police guard.
Rakgoale thanked the business people for the great work they are doing in their communities and mentioned that construction has already commenced on the home of another victim of gender-based violence, 21-year-old Precious Ramabulana. She was murdered in her room at her off-campus residence in Botlokwa in November 2019.
A 28-year-old man was arrested in connection with the murder of Ramabulana and since appeared in the Morebeng Magistrate’s Court in December on charges related to murder, rape and robbery. He was remanded in custody until 30 January.
