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Police Minister General Bheki Cele has lauded the arrest of a man, believed to have hacked his wife and five children to death in the Eastern Cape.
He says in what has been described as a bloody start to the 16 Days of Activism of No Violence against Women and Children, the murder of a 42-year-old mother and her children, aged between six months and ten years, has shocked the country.
The family was attacked and killed with an axe, believed to be the same weapon found at the crime scene in the Dabakweni Locality in Kwaaiman earlier this week.
Police arrested the husband, a Zimbabwean national, at Ginsberg near King William's Town within 24 hours after the crime.
The 34-year-old man was in hiding at the time of his arrest and was allegedly preparing to flee the country.
The man is being held in custody and will appear in the Mqanduli Magistrate’s Court on Monday where he will face six counts of murder.
