Brutal stabbing of woman leaves family in shock
Cape Town - After the brutal murder of her mother, a woman is left with a haunting belief that the killer was after her, not her mother.
Nongazi Malgas, 71, was at her Tapushe Village home in Qonce (formerly King William’s Town) when an unknown assailant attacked her in front of her grandchildren.
Her grief-stricken daughter, Sesethu, said the killing was planned.
“It was around 10am last Tuesday, she was lying down in the rondavel, and the grandchildren were with her.
“There was a knock on the door, the person came in and then sat down on the chair near the door.
“My mother asked the strange man who he was and what he wanted, and he said he was Mofokeng but didn’t say what or who he wanted.”
Sesethu explained Malgas asked her 13-year-old granddaughter to bring her water and that is when the suspect attacked the victim.
“The 13-year-old went to alert her 20-year-old cousin that there was a strange man in the rondavel. Immediately after, the teenager heard my mother screaming for help and when she peeped through the window, she saw the man on top of mom repeatedly stabbing her in the chest.
“There was a nine-year-old boy who watched as his grandmother was knifed.”
Sesethu said the killer casually walked past the other children as he went out the gate. This was not the first Malgas family member who was killed. In 2023, a 16-year-old girl was shot and killed in Sesethu’s car.
Police spokesperson, Siphokazi Mawisa, said a case of murder had been opened at Tamara SAPS.
“According to the information, it is alleged that the victim was inside her house at Tapushe Administrative area outside King William’s Town when an unknown suspect entered and stabbed the 71-year-old victim. She died on the scene. No arrest has been made. However, an investigation is under way.”