Themba Dube murder victim’s children given a new home
After Mpho Manaka's murder by serial killer Themba Dube in 2020, her oldest son was left to take care of his two younger brothers in a shack in Seshego Ext 133.
POLOKWANE – Hope recently came in the form of a house to call their own, for three orphaned siblings whose mother was brutally murdered by Themba Dube, a serial killer that was sentenced to eight life terms in the Polokwane High Court in March this year.
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Mpho Manaka was just one of numerous women who were killed by Dube in 2020 after he promised to find them jobs.
Her oldest son, Kagiso who is in Gr 12 was left to take care of his two younger brothers, Hope and Karabo in the shack they were living in, in Seshego Ext 133.
The boys initially relied on friends, neighbours and relatives, who were also facing tough socio-economic challenges. More recently, community representatives in the area requested assistance from government to speed up the process to build their Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) house, and money was raised to furnish the house.
Members of the ANC Women’s League in Limpopo joined in on the fundraising mission and were present when the house was handed over to the children last Friday.
The children have until now been kept out of the media to avoid possible victimisation.
Good Samaritans pledged to buy food parcels every months, and assist with the day-to-day expenses of the now child-headed family, league secretary Tebogo Mamorobela told BONUS.
Area ward councillor Mathews Leballo welcomed the effort and called on the organisation to channel the same energy to other child-headed homes.
“It should not just be this family who becomes a beneficiary. We know of them because their plight was publicised, but in our ward, there are several child-headed families, including in Ext 27 and Hospital view. We call for the same treatment for them, all these households are a priority,” he concluded.
