Location: South Africa – Page 2 – Disability Day of Mourning

Refilwe Monamodi

Name: Refilwe Rebecca Monamodi.
Died: March 5, 2017.
Age at death: 54.
Cause of death: Asphyxia.
Location: East Rand, South Africa.
Disability: Hemiparesis due to a car accident.

Details:
Refilwe’s daughter strangled her and threw her into the family’s swimming pool. Her four-year-old grandchild witnessed her death at the hands of her own daughter.

After she died, a police sergeant reported that he had often been called to the house on domestic violence calls. Refilwe had regularly been beaten up by her daughter, but was unable to press charges, probably due to fear of victimization or economic dependence.

Before her disability, she had worked as an advocate (that is, a barrister–a type of lawyer).

Case status:
Lerato Monamodi (Daughter), convicted of murder, sentenced to life.

Source:
Daughter gets life behind bars for killing her mother in Glen Marais
Murder accused ‘often abused’ mom
Drowning of disabled woman blamed on daughter
Daughter ‘kills’ disabled mom
Woman Drowns Disabled Mom
Drowning blamed on daughter
Murder accused ‘often abused’ mom

Prakash and Shoba Singh

Name: Prakash Singh.
Age at death: 56.
Disability: Stroke-related.

Name: Shoba Singh.
Age at death: 50.
Disability: Unspecified.

Died: February 28, 2017.
Cause of death: Traumatic injury.
Location: Phoenix, South Africa.

Details:
Prakash and Shoba Singh were allegedly hacked to death with a bush knife by their son. Reportedly, he was angry that his mother wanted to send him to a drug rehabilitation center.

Case status:
Shanveer Singh (Son), charged with murder.

Source:
KZN double murder accused son to stay behind bars
Indian-origin hacks parents to death in SA, lives with decomposed body for a week
NRI Youth Kills Disabled Parents, Lives With Their Corpses For A Week | Link Newspaper
Man slept in house with couple’s decomposing bodies | IOL
UPDATE: Phoenix man appears in court for parents’ alleged murder
Phoenix Parents Hacked To Death By Son

Leonard Isequias

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Name: Leonard Isequias.
Died: May 26, 2016.
Age at death: 52.
Cause of death: Traumatic injury.
Location: Vryburg, South Africa.
Disability: Unspecified; wheelchair user.

Details:
Leonard’s brother-in-law, who police say habitually abused and starved him, reportedly locked him inside the house without any food and left him there for a week. When he came back, he saw that Leonard had become so desperate to survive that he had been eating his own waste. To punish him, his brother-in-law allegedly beat him to death with a whip.

Case status:
Junior Santos (brother-in-law), charged with murder.

Source:
Disabled man ‘starved and beaten to death’
Brother-in-law peed off by disabled relative beats him to death in fit of rage
Cops probe murder of disabled man in North West
Man accused of beating disabled brother-in-law to death wants charge changed
Wheelchair-bound man killed for eating own faeces was also abused

Thandazile Mpunzi

No Photo Name: Thandazile Mpunzi.
Died: August 1, 2015.
Age at death: 20.
Cause of death: Asphyxia.
Location: Kwazulu-Natal (Manguzi), South Africa.
Disability: Albinism.

Details:
Believing that albino body parts would make them rich, Thandazile’s boyfriend, a local healer, and two other men decided to kill her. Her boyfriend lured her out to a remote spot, where she was strangled and dismembered.

Case status:
Mandla Mabuza, pleaded guilty to murder, 20 years.
Lindokuhle Khumalo, pleaded guilty to murder, 20 years.
Bhekukufa Gumede (healer), convicted of murder, sentenced to life.
Siyabonga Gwala (Boyfriend), sentenced to 18 years.

Source:
KZN witchdoctor gets life for murder of woman with albinism
Boyfriend jailed for albino muti murder
KZN albino murder: 2 suspects plead guilty
Commission outraged at killing of albino woman

Thembisile Dlamini

No Photo Name: Thembisile Dlamini.
Died: May 23, 2015.
Age at death: 58.
Cause of death: Gunshot, fire.
Location: Amatikwe, Inanda, South Africa.
Disability: Diabetes, leg amputee, blind.

Details:
Thembisile was the caregiver for three of her grandchildren as well as three foster children.

Her granddaughter’s ex, had kidnapped one of the children, and her granddaughter called the police. When he found out, he attacked the family at their home. Two other women managed to escape out of the windows, but Thembisile could not escape, so she began yelling for help. Her grandson-in-law shot her in the mouth to silence her, then set the house on fire.

Thembisile’s family survived the incident, though they had to live with a neighbor for a year to get back on their feet.

Case status:
Bheki Khumalo (Grandson-in-law), sentenced to 20 years for murder and 10 years for arson.

Source:
KZN man given 30 year jail term for killing blind ‘defenseless’ elderly woman
Justice for blind, diabetic, amputee KZN gran who was shot in mouth by grandson-in-law

Esihle Mosoeu

No Photo Name: Esihle Xoliswa Mosoeu.
Died: October 31, 2014.
Age at death: 2.
Cause of death: Asphyxia.
Location: Pomeroy, South Africa.
Disability: “Disabled child who could not sit or stand on her own”.

Details:
Esihle’s mother strangled her because she didn’t have enough money to feed her. She was receiving child grant money for her Esihle, but she used the money to transport her to a hospital for treatment, instead of to buy food.

Case status:
(Mother); pleaded guilty to murder, sentenced to 5 years, suspended for 5 years.

Source:
Child murder ‘was an act of despair’

Ayanda Mnisi

No Photo Name: Ayanda Mnisi.
Died: August 16, 2012.
Age at death: 7.
Cause of death: Strangulation.
Location: KaMhlushwa, South Africa.
Disability: Epilepsy.

Details:
Ayanda’s father raped and strangled her to death.

Case status:
Sunnyboy Phakimpi Mnisi (Father), sentenced to 15 years for murder and 3 years each for two counts of rape.

Source:
Mpumalanga man jailed for raping, murdering daughter
Father admits to killing epileptic daughter, but denies raping her