Three days ago, Shadi Rapitso's neighbour came to her house. He declared his undying love for her and told her that if she didn't take him as her lover, he would kill himself.
Yesterday morning, he arrived at the e.tv 3rd Degree journalist's flat, took her next door, where he held her hostage, before fatally stabbing her in the neck.
Then he stabbed himself several times in the chest with a kitchen knife.
The man, believed to be an SABC employee, has been arrested and is under police guard in hospital.
He cannot be named until he appears in court on Monday.
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The drama at Rapitso's upmarket secure suburban complex unfolded around 8am yesterday as she was preparing to leave for work.
Yesterday would have been a big day for the 29-year-old as she was finalising an important investigation she had been working on.
But Rapitso never made it to the office. Instead she came face to face with her stalker. He had lived in an adjacent flat on the ground level of the Calaids complex in Montgomery Park.
He took her to his home, where he attacked her.
Rapitso was found lying in the bathroom and the man was in the passage with the kitchen knife he had used to kill her just metres away.
Dlamini said police were alerted when neighbours heard screaming and called the police.
Rapitso's family, from Mabopane in North West, were told late yesterday about her death.
Reeling from the news, a spokesman, who did not want to be named, said they were struggling to come to terms with her murder.
A close friend of Rapitso's, Tankiso Komane, told the Saturday Star that the man had been stalking Rapitso for a while.
"They were neighbours. They knew each other and went out on two or three dates. He phoned her a lot. She told him that she didn't want him as a lover about a month ago.
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