EFF STATEMENT ON THE PASSING OF ABDUCTED FIGHTER THOBILE
SKHOSANA.
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in Limpopo notes with a heavy heart the
untimely passing of 26-year-old Thobile Skhosana who was abducted by a local
man aged 40 from Matsitsi village in Elias Motsoaledi Ward 19.
It is alleged that the perpetrator lured the victim to a nearby bush at Sehlakwane
village, in Elias Motsoaledi, on the 31st of December 2022 where he raped her
and strangled her to death thereafter. Fighter Thobile’s lifeless body was
therefore found dumped in the early hours of today, 05 January 2023 at
Sehlakwane village not far from the local sports ground where she was abducted
by the 40-year-old man while attending the New Year’s Eve event.
We condemn in the strongest possible terms the manifestation of the scourge
of Gender-Based Violence and Femicide which continues to rage our province.
Women face quadruple challenges of inequality, unemployment, poverty,
exacerbated by GBVF , the war that is orchestrated by their own partners or
people who are supposed to protect them.
Police have once again failed us in finding Thobile alive, despite our call on
maximum resources to be deployed to help trace the whereabouts of Thobile.
The EFF calls on the state to impose the harshest sentence on the perpetrator
who robbed us of the life of Thobile. Callous perpetrators must rot in jail!
The EFF sends its sympathies and condolences to the bereaved family, friends
,relatives and fellow Fighters of Fighter Thobile.
May the departed soul of Fighter Thobile, rest in perfect peace.
