South Africa: Murder Confession Arrives With a Thud - but Uyinene Mrwetyana Is Still Officially Missing

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A 42-year-old post office worker has confessed to raping and killing 19-year-old UCT student Uyinene Mrwetyana, but the investigation still continues. An unidentified body was found in Khayelitsha on Saturday and DNA tests are being done to confirm the identity of the body.

On the still white-hot ashes of women's month comes the confession by a post office employee in the Wynberg Magistrate's Court on Monday that he murdered missing UCT student Uyinene Mrwetyana.

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