Hillary Gardee was found dead in a timber plantation about 40 km outside of Mbombela in Mpumalanga on Tuesday. She had wounds on her head.
Julius Malema, the leader of the EFF, believes Gardee was murdered as part of a criminal conspiracy.
News24 interviewed Dr. Guy Lamb, a criminologist specializing in political science, discussing the circumstances surrounding her murder.
Dr. Lamb believes the motives for her murder are unclear at this stage.
“The kind of issue here is you have a young woman who is killed and is killed under very suspicious circumstances that were clearly murder because there is a firearm. And it’s clear that it was sort of an assassination-style murder that happened. But what the motivations are, certainly is unclear.” said Dr. Lamb.
He further stated that femicide is usually done by someone who was in a relationship with the victim. “One thing we do know about femicide within South Africa is it’s typically an intimate partner, or former intimate partner or someone who has a particular obsession with a woman or a girl.”
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