‘Prophet’ arrested after woman, daughter raped and killed in Limpopo

A 35-year-old man from Jane Furse in Limpopo was arrested in connection with the rape and murder of a woman and her daughter in Oaks village on Saturday morning. 

“The police were notified of a murder from Willows Clinic. They rushed there and found a 37-year-old woman with stab wounds on the neck,” police spokesperson Brig Hlulani Mashaba said. 

The woman succumbed to her injuries.

Mashaba said the deceased’s sister told police her sister had told her before she died that she and her daughter had been stabbed by the suspect, who is alleged to be a prophet.

The daughter, 20, was found dead in the sitting room of their house, half naked with a stab wound on the neck and signs she had been raped.