Daily Sun (August 12 2014) - THABO DROVE 300km to pay his girlfriend a surprise visit - but he was the one who got the terrible surprise. He found his lover in the arms of another man.
NOW TWO PEOPLE ARE DEAD AND A THIRD IS FIGHTING FOR HER LIFE.
Thabo Koloko (45) had not seen his girlfriend for weeks so he drove from eMalahleni in Mpumalanga to Mahikeng in North West to pay her a visit.
When Thabo arrived he thought he was dreaming when he found her with another man.
In a wild rage he shot the man dead, threw his girlfriend in the car and headed towards his aunt's home in Mohlakeng, Randfontein in Gauteng. But while on the R41 near Carletonville, he pulled the woman out of the car and shot her many times, leaving her for dead.
He then drove to his aunt in Mohlakeng to explain what he had done. His aunt, who didn't want to be named, said when Thabo arrived at her house he said he was going to kill himself.
"We tried to talk him out of it but it didn't look as if he was listening to us," said the aunt. Thabo slipped out of the house unnoticed and walked to Mohlakeng Cemetery, less than a kilometre from the house, sat down on his mother's grave and shot himself.
"We became worried when his phone was off and we started searching for him," said the aunt. "The following day, we saw a crowd at the cemetery.
"We went to look and Thabo was lying there, his blood splattered all over his mother's grave."
His aunt said she can't understand why he shot himself on her sister's grave. "Thabo was a son to me and to see him lying dead broke my heart," she said. Warrant Officer Solomon Sibiya said the man shot his girlfriend on the R41 near Carletonville.
She was found by passersby who called an ambulance and is fighting for her life at Carletonville Hospital," he said. The Mohlakeng Cemetery manager, identified as Mkhize, said when he arrived in the morning he was met by cops and a crowd. "The man's body was lying on top of the grave." Warrant Officer Sibiya confirmed that a man was shot dead in Mahikeng and also said a suicide docket was opened at Randfontein Police Station
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