Africa-Press – South-Africa. ActionSA has offered a R50 000 reward for information leading to the arrest of those who killed two Soweto boys last week.
ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba said the abduction and murder of Nqobile Zulu, 5, and Tshiamo Rabanye, 6, “highlights how our communities are left defenceless against rising crime”.
The bodies of the two boys were discovered on Thursday. They had disappeared the day before while playing outside in the street.
Residents, including patrollers, spent Wednesday night frantically combing the area for the missing boys. Their bodies were eventually found in separate locations on Thursday morning, and some of their body parts were missing.
Mashaba wrote to Gauteng police commissioner, Lieutenant General Elias Mawela, last week to say he would make the funds available.
Mashaba is a close family friend of the boys’ family spokesperson and visited the bereaved family on Saturday. He was joined by former City of Johannesburg police chief David Tembe and Gauteng chairperson Funzi Ngobeni.
Mashaba said:
He added that he looked “forward to Mawela accepting our offer to help”.
“We will not rest until children can play safely in the streets of our communities without fear for their safety, and the rule of law is restored to all spheres of our society,” Mashaba added.
Mawela previously told News24 he had mobilised police resources to hunt down the culprits.
He said the two boys were reported missing at the Moroka police station.
One body was discovered in White City and the other was discovered later in Rockville, Mawela said.
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