Life sentence for Flavio Hlabangwane for mutilating his cousin-turned-lover Tshepang Pitse

Judge Cassim Ismael Moosa said during the sentencing that femicide was a pandemic in South Africa and that the entire country laments and expresses its frustration against the scourge of gender-based violence.  

“We dare not let the killers win and a society then not succumb to the treacherous, cowardly and debilitating logic of gender-based violence.  

“Sekwanele, enough is enough,” he said.

Moosa ordered Hlabangwane to participate in long-term psychotherapy with a focus on behaviour, anger management, subsistence use and inside-orientated intervention offered by the department of correctional services.  

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