Johannesburg - The family of Charlotte Ramohai, who was killed in a hijacking in Bramfischerville, Soweto, last month, are relieved that one of her alleged killers has been arrested.
“I am a little relieved but not okay. They must catch all of them because he was not (acting) alone,” Charlotte’s mother-in-law Victoria said.
She had not been aware of the arrest of the 25-year-old man until journalists spoke to her.
Charlotte was shot and died in front of her son, 7, and daughter, 12, outside Khula Nolwazi Primary School, which they attend.
The 33-year-old woman was three months pregnant.
Two men fled in the car she was driving, which was later found dumped in Snake Park.
The family were battling to come to terms with what happened on April 20, Victoria said.
“They are not coping. They are hurting. The children too. The small one asked me about his mom.”
Charlotte’s daughter understood death better than her younger brother and had asked to visit her mother’s grave, a subdued Victoria said.
Both children as well as Charlotte’s husband Tsepo were receiving weekly counselling.
“When you talk to her husband, he just cries. Even yesterday, he was just crying.”
Charlotte’s funeral was on April 26.
Her family and friends remember her as a lively and loving person.
Charlotte’s nephew, Relebogile Maphathe, said after the shooting that his aunt adored her family.
“Her children and her husband were her everything. She called him ‘my mister muscle man’,” he said.
The suspect was expected to appear in the Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court on Thursday on charges of hijacking and murder.
He was arrested in Soweto on Monday after police had received tip-offs.
Gauteng police spokesman Lieutenant Kay Makhubela said police were searching for the other suspect. Last week, police offered a R100 000 reward for the arrest and conviction of the killers.
The Star