Thapelo Menwe News Today

TWO suspects linked to the murder of University of Pretoria student Thapelo Menwe (23) appear in the Pretoria Magistrates Court on Wednesday, 26 October.

TWO suspects linked to the murder of University of Pretoria student Thapelo Menwe were supposed to appear in the Pretoria Magistrates Court on Tuesday, 25 October, but the matter was rolled over.

The two men accused of killing postgraduate student Thapelo Menwe will make their second appearance in the Pretoria magistrate's court on Thursday.

University of Pretoria students are outraged that their likable, humble colleague was murdered just a few metres from a popular student residence in the capital.

THE mood was sombre and the air thick with grief during Thapelo Menwe’s funeral service at St Augustine’s Anglican Church in Ikageleng, Zeerust, North West this weekend.

Excerpt - Students at the University of Pretoria are calling for an increase security after a 23-year-old was gunned down during a robbery.

FAMILY members of a student who was killed outside a university residence are still struggling to accept their loss.

UNIVERSITY of Pretoria (UP) SRC, students, classmates and friends of the late Thapelo Menwe held a vigil in his honour.



A petition has been launched to deny bail to two suspects accused of murdering a University of Pretoria honours student during a street robbery at the weekend.

Gauteng police spokesperson Colonel Mavela Masondo said two men, aged 38 and 33, were arrested during a police patrol shortly after the shooting.