A deeply distressing incident came to light on Thursday, 9 April 2026, after a woman was taken into police custody in connection with the alleged murder of her two young daughters.
The incident reportedly occurred at approximately 6pm in KwaMathukuza, Newcastle.
Newcastle SAPS spokesperson Lizzy Arumugam confirmed that officers responded to the scene, where they discovered the bodies of two female children with deep wounds to their throats.
“The two children were declared deceased at the scene, and two knives, believed to be the murder weapons, were found under the bed,” she said.
In addition, an official police source at the scene alleged that a local resident had been contacted by the children’s father. According to the source, the father said the children’s mother had phoned him and informed him that she had murdered their daughters, aged five and nine.
The police source further claimed:
“The father asked the man to please rush to his house and check if the children were okay. However, when the resident got to the house, the children were dead, and the mother was missing.”
By the time the resident arrived at the property, both girls were found dead in one of the rooms.
Law enforcement was then contacted, and police later traced the suspect to Section D in Madadeni. Arumugam further confirmed that the suspect had been arrested.
However, she stressed that she could not provide further details at this stage, as investigations by Newcastle detectives were still underway. She did add that the suspect is expected to appear in the Newcastle Magistrate Court on Monday, 13 April 2026.
As Newcastle detectives continue with their investigation, the full circumstances surrounding the incident are expected to emerge in due course. In the meantime, the community is left to grapple with the devastating loss of two young lives as the legal process begins.
Further updates on the case will be published as more information comes to light.
Newcastillian News extends its heartfelt condolences to the family of the two young girls.
Newcastillian News reports criminal matters on the basis of information reasonably available at the time of publication. Facts under investigation are reported as allegations and attributed accordingly. Guilt is determined by a court of law.
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She will be sitting a holding cell for the weekend eating from our tax money, court dates and obviously be sent for physcatric evaluation which we got to pay for as well via our tax money, her defense will be the ancestors spoke to her their usual story, if she is trailed then again our tax money gets used cause she will be having free board and lodging, may not be a 5 star guest house but she won’t be paying for the accommodation. All this because she slaughtered her children like if they were animals, this is why I am so against the new laws of people who murder get a jail sentence and not the death penalty. They make if they remorseful however they are not, they have freedom over a few years and get realeased on “good behavior ” meanwhile innocent lives where taken.