While we condemn such barbaric deeds of rape and murder, we are also against mob justice and appeal to communities to report to the police instead of taking the law into their own hands.

She endorsed the mob justice, saying it would probably deter like-minded criminals from attacking vulnerable women.

Her views on mob justice were not supported by the local chief, Khotsi Gwele, who said the police could have prevented the attacks and deaths of the suspects had they promptly attended to the crime scene.

He said the police arrived much later to find a mob in the process of assaulting a suspect and rescued him.

Before he was taken away by the police, the suspect named his two accomplices and the mob searched and found them after the police had already left.