Daily Sun (October 23 2013) - IN her dream, Mamojalefa saw her dead mother standing at a coffin. She knew it was a sign from the ancestors. She knew her own daughter was in great danger . . . but the warning came too late.
THE NEXT DAY, HER 21-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER WAS DEAD.
Mamojalefa Jekwa (51), from Protea South, Soweto said she had the dream on Saturday night, and when she woke up on Sunday morning she immediately went to the room where her daughter was sleeping. Her daughter, Itumeleng, has spent the night at her mother's house.
"I warned her she must leave her abusive boyfriend but she wouldn't listen to me," said Mamojalefa.
"She told me she couldn't live without her boyfriend."
Mamojalefa said she could see Itumeleng had been beaten. "As I spoke to my daughter I could see she had black and blue marks all over her body."
The argument between the mother and her daughter became so heated that Itumeleng's terrified six-year-old son broke down in tears. He pleaded with them to stop fighting.
In the end, Itumeleng said she was going to the room in Protea Glen that she rented with her boyfriend to collect her things. That was the last time Mamojalefa saw her daughter alive.
Instead, the boyfriend came looking for Itumeleng. "I told him to go to hell and he left," Mamojalefa said.
She said she didn't hear anything until Monday morning. "Then I received a call from the boyfriend telling me to go to the room. He said I would see that my daughter was dead," she said.
Mamojalefa went to the room but it was locked. She went to the Protea Glen police, who accompanied the mother back to the room.
When they broke down the door, they found Itumeleng dead on the bed. Her boyfriend was nowhere to be found.
"They were only together for six months but he told her the two of them would only be separated by death," said the woman's mother.
"But her beat her up all the time. They were even chased away from the room they were renting in White City."
Mamojalefa said the owner of the house said she didn't want Itumeleng to die in her yard.
"She told me the boyfriend beat her up every day. They would turn the music up but she could still hear my daughter screaming," Mamojalefa said.
She said she called a family friend, Nkosana, who went into the room to see the body.
"He said my daughter was very pale.
"When the cops turned her body over she bled from her nose and mouth," said Mamojalefa.
) But Soweto police spokesman, Warrant Officer Kay Makhubela, denied that Itumeleng was killed. He said they had done an examination and believe she died from a heart attack.
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