JOHANNESBURG police were still questioning a 24-year-old man and his mother on Tuesday in connection with the disappearance and murder of Nasiphi Mokenene (3) in Alexandra, north of Johannesburg, police said. The man handed himself over to the Alexandra police station on Monday after Nasiphi was found butchered over the weekend. The man has not been charged yet. A post mortem on Mokenene’s body will be conducted on Tuesday. The girl’s mutilated body was found in a shallow grave in a field in Marlboro, Sandton, by a group of children on Saturday morning. Her body had been buried in a shallow grave but heavy rains removed the topsoil, exposing the dead child. The body was naked, with wounds to the genital area and left leg. – Sapa
Saturday November 10, 2001