Resting place Zandfontein Cemetery Parent(s) Joseph and Kate Kgomo | Nationality South African Home towns Soshanguve, Gauteng | |
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Disappeared 31 December 2009
Soshanguve, Gauteng Body discovered 9 January 2010(2010-01-09)
Soshanguve, Gauteng Died 31 December 2009, Soshanguve, South Africa | ||
Masego Kgomo (c. 1999 – 31 December 2009) was a South African girl murdered in order to sell some of her body parts to a sangoma. Her murder sparked calls to sangomas to stop murdering children for their body parts.
Kgomo went missing near her home in Soshanguve, a township north of Pretoria, on 31 December 2009. Five people were initially charged with her kidnapping and murder. A suspect led police to Kgomo's body in Soshanguve in the early hours of 9 January 2010.
On 28 November 2011, Judge Billy Mothle found 30-year-old Brian Mangwale guilty of her murder and kidnapping in the Pretoria High Court. Mangwale was sentenced to life imprisonment for her murder and six years imprisonment for her kidnapping.
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