The body of a young woman was found in her boyfriend's house in Transit Camp last weekend. The woman has been identified as 19-year-old Mbalentle Mancam, who lived in Extension 9 with a relative.
Mancam and her 40-year-old boyfriend had been at a shebeen near his house on Saturday night. According to the police report, a witness said that after a man at the shebeen commented that Mancam looked beautiful, the couple went back his house.
According to Grahamstown police spokesperson Captain Mali Govender, neighbours heard the woman crying and went to the house to see what was going on. The door was locked and they left.
Just before daybreak on Sunday, the neighbours noticed smoke coming from the house and when they went to investigate, they found a couch on fire, said Govender. After putting out the blaze, they found the woman on a bed inside, with a number of stab wounds on her body.
The police are investigating a case of murder, and a man was arrested with the assistance of community members on Monday. He appeared briefly in the Grahamstown Magistrate's Court on Wednesday before Magistrate Nishanie Beharie, but the case has been postponed to 30 November for a formal bail application. He was not asked to plead.
The body of a young woman was found in her boyfriend's house in Transit Camp last weekend. The woman has been identified as 19-year-old Mbalentle Mancam, who lived in Extension 9 with a relative.
Mancam and her 40-year-old boyfriend had been at a shebeen near his house on Saturday night. According to the police report, a witness said that after a man at the shebeen commented that Mancam looked beautiful, the couple went back his house.
According to Grahamstown police spokesperson Captain Mali Govender, neighbours heard the woman crying and went to the house to see what was going on. The door was locked and they left.
Just before daybreak on Sunday, the neighbours noticed smoke coming from the house and when they went to investigate, they found a couch on fire, said Govender. After putting out the blaze, they found the woman on a bed inside, with a number of stab wounds on her body.
The police are investigating a case of murder, and a man was arrested with the assistance of community members on Monday. He appeared briefly in the Grahamstown Magistrate's Court on Wednesday before Magistrate Nishanie Beharie, but the case has been postponed to 30 November for a formal bail application. He was not asked to plead.
