Woman killed after saying no to proposal

Nokuthula Thashe

Nokuthula Thashe

Published Aug 10, 2016

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Cape Town - A 28-year-old woman was shot and killed, allegedly by her ex-boyfriend when she refused to marry him.

Nokuthula Thashe from Suburban, Delft, was doing the laundry on Friday evening when her Zimbabwean boyfriend came with a friend holding R13 000 for lobola, according to her mother Sheila Thashe.

Nokuthula refused to marry him, as she had done numerous times during the five years they has been dating.

Thashe was gunned down at her mother's home days after she ran away from the house that she and her boyfriend shared at the N2 Gateway in Langa.

Her mother said the couple had had a volatile relationship. She believes the boyfriend was jealous and had been abusing her daughter.

In April, Nokuthula Thashe laid charges of assault against him.

Last Wednesday, Thashe slept over at her mother’s house in Delft, telling her mother they’d had a fight and she needed a place to stay.

“She asked me to give her a R50 so that she can pay for the transport to get all her things from N2 Gateway,” says Sheila.

“I gave it to her and she and a friend went to go and get it. When her things arrived, they smelled of petrol. He had thrown her stuff out of the flat. I gave her black bags to pack them into and she started doing the washing

“I did not know it would be our last conversation,” said Sheila, the tears streaming down her face.

On Friday night, she was awoken by her daughter screaming her name and two shots being fired.

“I ran and she was lying on the stoep, barely breathing. There was almost no blood at all. She just lay there moaning as I called for someone to phone the police and an ambulance,” said Sheila.

Police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Andrè Traut confirmed the killing, as well as the assault case laid in April.

Cops are still hunting for the suspect.

“On Friday, Delft SAPS members responded to a complaint of a shooting which had occurred at 45 Ouhout Street, Delft South,” says Traut. “Upon arrival, the members found the body of a 28-year-old female who was shot and killed, allegedly by her boyfriend, who is a foreign national and who fled the scene.

“He is yet to be arrested.”

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