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The mother of a teenage girl are desperately seeking answers following her daughter’s suicide last Friday, 24 March.

Fabian Lester Sitzer (42) appeared in court on Monday (13 March) after being arrested in Mbekweni on two charges related to fraud in a CCMA lawsuit dating back to November 2022, and allegedly worth R900 000.

The young man accused of the murder of 10-year-old of Lihle Zenzile from Mbekweni, a distant cousin of hers, made his second appearance in the Paarl Regional Court this past week.

Relatives of 10-year-old Lihle Zenzile Tuesday gathered in the home where her body had been found in a white trunk in her parents’ bedroom the Friday night before.

Siphamandla Madikane (28) was arrested at the weekend after allegedly holding up workers at the Hungry Lion fast food outlet at the entrance to Mbekweni on Friday morning.

Three armed suspects pulled-off a swift heist as they fled the scene at the Dal Josaphat Testing Centre with over R43 000 in cash and attending guards' weapons on Tuesday morning.

Joint operations between law enforcement agencies in the Winelands District led to successful raids of drug houses followed by arrests of numerous suspects in Mbekweni and Franschhoek respectively.

National and local authorities have launched a nationwide manhunt for the suspects that shot and killed three men in Mbekweni on Sunday.

One man died and another two sustained injuries in an altercation with a motorist at the Mbekweni and Newton intersection in Jan van Riebeeck Drive on Saturday evening.

Yet another murder scene revealed the beaten, lifeless bodies of a woman and a man in Mbekweni on Saturday morning.