Syndicate Targeting and Killing Women They Suspect To Be ‘Slay Queens’ In South Africa (Video)

The late Olorato Mongale

Source: Africa Publicity

Jessica, one of the surviving victims of a syndicate targeting, kidnapping, robbing or killing women from shopping centres and malls in South Africa has narrated how a member of the syndicate – who kidnapped her and transferred money from her bank account after taking her iPhone – told her that they were after slay queens who are sharing their entire lives on social media and demanding money from men to maintain their expensive lifestyles.

 

The revelation comes in the wake of the alleged killing of a South African university student,  Olorato Mongale, by members of a syndicate who allegedly dumped her body by the road side in Lombardy, Johannesburg.

 

Speaking exclusively to SABC in an interview monitored by Africa Publicity, Jessica says she met a man believed to be a member of the syndicate on the dating app, Tinder.

 

According to her, he asked to go a date with her. She said after chatting briefly with him on Tinder, she became excited, exchanged contacts with him and they agreed to go on a date.

 

Jessica said the man told her that he was going to pick her up in his car and that he was coming along with his little sister because he didn’t know the side of town well and so he didn’t want to go out alone.

 

Upon entering his car, said to be a red Beijing car, the man was seated with the lady he claimed to be his sister. They then asked Jessica to give them her iPhone and they started driving with her in the car, warning her not to scream. She said she made attempts to scream because she could see people walking on the pavement on the other side of the road but because the windscreen was up, they couldn’t hear her to come to her rescue, adding that the nature of the windscreen made it difficult for people outside to see what was happening in the car.

 

According to Jessica, while driving to a location where they were expected to kill her, they asked for her icloud password which she gave them. They then went on to transfer an undisclosed amount of money from her bank account. She told SABC she had two bank accounts.

 

While they were driving her to the location, the man called his friend to meet them with a gun, and his supposed sister also kept telling him kill her. Fortunately for Jessica, his friend delayed in bringing the gun and he became frustrated. Jessica believes the lady she met in the car was part of the syndicate targeting women and young girls in South Africa.

After the gun could not be delivered as expected, Jessica says her perpetrator then told her that he was going to drop her off to another location.

 

While driving to the location where they were going to drop her off, Jessica says she asked the man, “why are you doing this?” And he responded: “It’s because you are a slay queen. It’s because you are publicly displaying your entire life. It’s because women like you take money from men. I will teach you a lesson.”

 

Jessica says she told them that she wasn’t a slay queen and that she was working hard for her money.

She said after they dropped her off, they told to look straight ahead of her while walking, warning her not to look back.

Man Implicated

Meanwhile, another report by SABC says a former girlfriend of an unidentified man who claimed to be an of Philangenkosi Makhanya, the dead suspect in the killing of the South African university student, Olorato Mongale’s case, has come out and implemented the man as being part of a syndicate targeting women.

 

According to the report, the lady she says she was able to identify the man through the sound of his voice whilst being interviewed by SABC. The report says this was after Makhanya was shot and killed in a shootout with police at this unidentified man’s flat in Amanzimtoti in KwaZulu-Natal last week Friday.

 

The lady said “The thing that made me pay attention more to the issue of Olorato was when you interviewed this guy, the owner of the flat. I recognised the voice. I said ‘I know this voice. And I know how manipulative this guy is.”

 

Modus Operandi

 

For the five months that she was in a romantic relationship with this unidentified man, she not only got to know his voice as she alleges. But she was also able to witness incidences that convinced her he is allegedly involved in the so-called Romantic Dating Scam.

 

How this scam works is that the scammers pretend to like or fall in love with young, working, women they find on Instagram. And once the young ladies agree to go out on a date with them, they kidnap and then rob them off money and cellphones in particular iPhones.

 

She recalls visiting the man at his Amanzimtoti flat for the first time.

 

“He came back into the house. He was having many iPhones. He would take the batch of some iPhones, go with them. He will be like I am coming back. And I was so concerned to see what happens to the iPhones. I saw the iPhones, there was a box with many iPhones, some were brand new,” she adds.

Police also confirmed that after Makhanya was fatally shot inside the Amanzimtoti flat, they found close to 30 ID smart cards and 20 cellphones in his possession.

 

Mary and Jessica, another victim of this scam, both confirmed that the alleged perpetrator drove a red Beijing car.

 

“When he came into the city he said, he wanted to buy a car. He bought a car, a red Beijing, bought this car from Midrand,” says Mary.

 

“He is driving this Chinese car, a Beijing or whatever. A red Beijing,” says Jessica.

 

Mary says the tipping point was when she witnessed the man allegedly bribing police officers to release a blood-stained vehicle of his close friend whose name is known to SABC from a police station in Ekurhuleni.

 

She claims the man’s friend who uses a false name is also involved in the scam.

 

“After paying the bribe they released, they took the car to be cleaned of the blood,” she says.

Mary also confirmed Jessica’s statement that the man worked with other women when allegedly committing the crimes.

 

Jessica spoke about a man driving a red Beijing vehicle who came to pick her up for their date, accompanied by another woman whom the man claimed was his younger sister.

 

Mary also mentioned one particular woman whose name is also known to SABC News.

“He was always with this girl, always. Everywhere he goes he is gonna be with this girl. At some point, he would go with her when they go to rob women,” says Mary.

 

Despite the man’s insistence that he was not involved in the scam, she believes the months they spent together was long enough to convince her he was.

“I still believe that he is the one who killed Olorato. I don’t believe is Makhanya,” she says.

 

Police say they are closing in on arresting Bongani Mthimkulu, the suspect was being sought together with the now deceased Makhanya for Olorato’s murder.