The Very Sad Story Of Karabo Mokoena: 10 Shocking Facts

Karabo Mokoena’s death is one of the tragic realities of living in a world that will never be rid of crimes, we wake up to unbelievable stories daily with most targeted at a particular gender-female, otherwise called ‘femicide’. Another sad story is the untimely death of the 22-year-old Karabo Mokoena.

The young lady’s life was brutally ended by her then-boyfriend in a rather bizarre way as there are a lot of spiritual undertones. The sad event has added to the high number of gender-based violence against women.

Karabo Mokoena’s Profile

Name: Karabo Mokoena
Year of birth: 1995
Nationality: South African
Parents: Lolo and Thabang
Known for: Being murdered by boyfriend

Here Are 10 Shocking Facts You Didn’t Know

1. A Young Woman Cut Off In Her Prime

Karabo Mokoena was a young South African lady who got cut off in her prime by her boyfriend, Sandile Mantsoe in a twist of events that revolved around ritual killing. Close friends and family have said Karabo was a God-fearing lady.

2. #menarethrash

The dead of Karabo Mokoena has been ruled to be a premeditated murder and led to the trending hashtag #menarethrash as a call to drive home the case against gender-based violence in which women are usually the victims.

3. Karabo Mokoena’s Remains Were found In A Shallow Grave

Karabo Mokoena’s remains were found in a field after being buried in a shallow grave. While the family filed a missing person report, investigations led to the discovery of her remains in a deserted field in Johannesburg.

4. Karabo Mokoena Was Murdered As Part Of Ritual Rites

It is believed that she was murdered by her boyfriend as part of ritual rites to prosper his business according to police reports and the confessions gotten from her murderer.

Some claims by ‘witnesses’ explain that the duo was involved in a ritual at the beginning of their relationship and was spiritually binding on them. This ritual had to be repeated if they parted ways.

The ritual allegations were never accepted in court, there goes another futile explanation to crime.

5.Karabo Mokoena Remains Were Found With Some Organs Missing

People go to any extend to commit heinous crimes, vital organs were missing from her body and this is a confirmation of what ritualists and cultists give out as their mark based on police statements after discovering the missing organs.

Fetish exists in our world and a lot of crazies don’t respect human life.

6. Karabo Mokoena Remains Were Charred

After stabbing Karabo Mokoena, Sandile Mantsoe tried to cover the crime by dousing the corpse with acid and burning it. What do they say about criminals? They’ll always make a mistake, just as Sandile did.

7. Karabo Mokoena’s Boyfriend Sandile Claimed He Was A Positive Influence

Sandile Mantsoe had claimed he was trying to be a positive influence for Karabo Mokoena as she was battling depression caused by rape from one of her lovers, miscarriage, and other issues in her life. How does this add up in the face of his being estranged from his wife and three children? Your guess is as good as mine.

It was Sandile Mantsoe that directed the police to the shallow grave and described how he buried her after discovering her body in his apartment. His disposition was said to be calm while he attested to this.

8. “No one would believe me”, Alleged Karabo Mokoena’s Boyfriend

Sandile claimed he didn’t kill but discovered her body in his apartment with blood coming out the neck where she stabbed herself and as no one would believe him, he carried her corpse in a trash bag, put a tyre on her, doused her with acid and petrol from his mom’s car, proceeded to burn and bury her.

This absolutely sends chills down my spine.

9. Karabo Mokoena Alleged To Be Suicidal And Abusive

Sandile has continuously claimed Karago was suicidal and that she had always hit him. he goes on to say that they had other lovers while they had an on-off again relationship.