'Five minutes and she was gone': Soweto mother of six-year-old girl who was raped and killed

The mother of a six-year-old who was raped and murdered on Monday in Orlando, Soweto, last saw her little girl playing with other children across the street from her home

23 October 2024 - 20:16

Amantle Samane's mother spent almost two hours looking for her daughter until a teenage boy arrived at her door to inform her that she had been found in a backroom shack a few houses from her home. ..

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