Date to Note | While her family and close friends remember her as a beautiful free-spirited and bubbly fashionista who still had a lot to offer the beauty industry, the hurt and anger induced by her gruesome murder will remain with them 'for a long time'.
– was found guilty of masterminding her murder. Her body was found hanging from a tree with a bullet wound in her chest in Durban Deep, western Johannesburg, on June 5 2020.He did [Shoba] did not only take a daughter, aunt, and sister from her family, he also robbed us of a niece and a grandchild. What monster does that? You really have to be inhumane to kill two people whom you were meant to protect.was his cousin, Pule explained that their relationship was that of brother and sister.
He recalled how following Tshegofatso's death, his mother visited her sister's grave to ask for forgiveness. The father of two shared how his four-year-old daughter dreams about or cries for her late aunt. He added that his 10-year-old niece wrote a poem about violence against women and girls as part of a school assignment and questioned why Shoba took her aunt's life. Pule painfully recalled how just days after his family had reported Tshegofatso missing he had the agonising task of identifying his cousin's body.
However, Pule's most excruciating task was yet to come. He had to break the news to his mother."She collapsed on the spot."Handing down his judgment last year, Judge Stuart Wilson explained how Shoba had taken advantage of Tshegofatso. The 40-year-old, who is also the spokesperson of the Tshegofatso Pule Foundation, believes South Africa is far from winning the fight against"How can we win this war when in this day and age we have police stations that turn victims of such violence away and tell women to go home and sort things out with their partners?""The way they just killed her and left her body out there for any passerby to see. It's like they were trying to completely destroy every bit of her dignity.
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