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A suspect who was sought for murder of a student at the South African university was killed with the police at a shootout.
The man had been associated with the death of Olorato Mongale, whose body was found in Johannesburg on Sunday, about two hours after she was reported missing that she had passed a date.
In the early morning hours of Friday morning, police officers found the main suspect who was hidden in a residential complex in the coastal city of Amanzimoti, said police spokesman Athlenda Math.
The suspect, who was not named by the police, shot the officials who were brought back and killed fire, added Brigadier Matheme.
The regional police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazizi said that at the time of the death of the suspect, he had 28 ID cards and a dozen mobile phones in his possession.
Ms. Mongale’s death has triggered a violent debate about the measure of violence in South Africa.
The country has one of the highest rates of femalitis and gender -specific violence in the world.
In a passionate explanation, Minister of Police Senzo Mchunu Mrs. Mongal’s killing “inhuman” and “cruel” and added: “For all men, this is a plea – simple, urgent and human: Please, stop killing women.”
During the search for two other men who were supposedly connected to the murder, the police took the parents of the deceased suspect in custody.
The suspect’s mother is accused of enabling him to “avoid arrest” by showering him in her house about the presence of the police.
The police also said that the suspect’s father was the owner of a VW Polo who is supposedly used in Ms. Mongal’s murder.
The vehicle, which was confiscated by the police, had traces of blood in it, said Brig Math.
The suspect’s parents were questioned in custody, but have now been released, said Commissioner Mkhwanizi.
At the beginning of this week, the police called the three suspects associated with the murder as Fezile Ngubane, Philangenkosi Sibongokuhle Makhanya and Bongani Mthimkhulu.
Two of them – Mr. Makhanya and Mr. Mthimkhulu – were arrested last month for kidnapping and robbery in Kwazulu -natal, with the same VW Polo being involved in the murder of Ms. Mongale, the police said. Both men had been freed from deposit.
As part of their investigation, the police identified a criminal gang or “syndicates” that women in shopping centers “aimed at women for kidnapping and robbery,” said police spokeswoman Math.
“You suggest you and ask you to take you to a date. If you agree, plan to rob you,” she added.
When Ms. Mongale was last seen on Sunday, she was on a date with a man she had met in a shopping center a few days earlier.
CCTV film material showed that she left a place in Kew, Johannesburg, and went to a white VW Polo with fake license plates.
The friends of the 30-year-old said that she was invited by a man who was only identified as John to a date she had met in Johannesburg, where she studied a postgraduate degree at Witwatersrand University.
She wrote shortly before she left home, wrote one of her friends and said that she was excited and prepared for her date.
But the police later found their body in an open field, left out public outrage and demanded justice.
Family spokesman Criselda Kananda said that Ms. Mongales body was “brutally injured”.
On Wednesday evening on Wednesday evening in Lombardy West, where her body was found.
Family and friends described them as a pronounced, bubbling woman who “lived on purpose and love”, reported the local media.