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Original Post Date: 2008-03-13 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
By Thandi Skade
How a man trusted not only by the Tyatya family, but by their daughter Gofaone too could rape and murder a helpless child, who was also a relative, is the burning question the family are struggling to answer.
On Wednesday, they were still trying to comprehend the shocking turn of events after Gofaone’s uncle by marriage was arrested on Tuesday for the rape and murder of the seven-year-old.
“She trusted him and called him uncle,” said the girl’s aunt and guardian, Boitumelo Tyatya.
| ‘She trusted him and called him uncle’ |
She said her brother-in-law’s arrest had caused serious tension between the two families but especially for her husband, Alfius Masango, who is caught between his wife’s family and his own.
As news of the man’s arrest spread around the Zandspruit informal settlement, infuriated community members burnt tyres and threatened to burn down the 40-year-old man’s shack. Police had to intervene.
Now, in a bizarre act of retaliation, the Masango family have threatened to burn down the Tyatya home.
“His (the accused’s) mother and sister have threatened to burn down my sister’s house,” said Denise, another of the child’s aunts.
Despite the threats being thrown back and forth, Boitumelo said: “I’m not afraid. I’m strong.”
However, the family were disappointed that no one from the Masango family had come to apologise and ask for forgiveness.
The suspect was due to appear in the Randburg magistrate’s court on Thursday.
Meanwhile, preliminary results from an internal investigation into claims that Honeydew police acted negligently in responding to calls from the Tyatya family indicate that the complainant failed to meet officers at a “pre-arranged site”.
The SAPS acting national commissioner’s office on Wednesday quoted Honeydew station commissioner Oswald Reddy as saying: “Station staff dispute having said it was too dark and dangerous to attend to the complaint, and claim a vehicle was dispatched but returned to the police station after the caller did not meet the police officers.
“On arrival back at the station the responding officer met up with the complainant.”
The statement adds “there were six vehicles on duty on the night in question”.