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The suspect disclosed the incident to his mother, who went to the police station to report the grievous act of gender-based violence,\u201d said the South African Police Service on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Police found the woman\u2019s body at Gopane village outside Zeerust on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Provincial Commissioner of North West, Lieutenant General Sello Kwena, condemned the incident and congratulated the Motswedi Detectives for acting fast in arresting the suspect.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: South African Government News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 23-year-old man is due to appear in the Lehurutse Magistrate\u2019s Court on Tuesday in connection with the murder of a 21-year-old woman.It is alleged that the couple were coming from a local tavern at Gopane, when the suspect pulled the deceased into a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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