South Africa is a lawless place

South Africa is a lawless place where not even the life of a baby is worth a cent. A place where criminals patrol each street, each suburb, like predators seeking out their prey, with little fear that they will ever be caught and punished. ” I killed them because they were white.” These famous words were spoken in court by William Kekana, who participated in the massacre of the entire family of Mr. Clifford Rawstorne. His fiancée, baby girl and his mother were murdered, the adult women raped. Even this massacre of an entire family would not have made headlines, were it not for the fact that one year-old Kayla Drennan-Rawstorne was executed on her very first birthday with a shot in the head.

MURDERER and rapist William Kekana, who was called “Satan incarnate” by a judge who sentenced him to six life sentences plus 60 years imprisonment, could be back on the streets at the age of 40.

Under the current Correctional Services Act, Kekana, 20, will become eligible for parole after serving 20 years of his sentence, depending on his behaviour in prison and whether he has reformed himself.... (Pretoria News)

"A 17-year old girl, the sole survivor of a rape and murder spree, told how she saw her two rapists callously shoot a one-year-old baby Kayla Rawstorne after raping the infant's mother. The girl, who testified in camera in the High Court, said baby Kayla had gurgled as blood poured from her mouth and William Kekana, 19, "finished her off" with a second bullet to the chest. The family's slaughter was a crime that shocked South Africa and led to a call for a return of the death penalty" – (The Herald News)

When this story first hit the news headlines I was aghast, shocked that a human being could commit such heinous crimes. William Kekana, hijacked a car belonging to a young woman (Janine). The car's occupants, Janine, her infant daughter, her mother-in-law Hester Rawstorne and a teenage hitchhiker were tortured for hours. Baby Kayla was shot in the face because she would not stop crying and when she did not die immediately was shot again. The older woman, Hester, was murdered shortly afterwards. Janine and the young hitchhiker were repeatedly raped and tortured and then both were shot at point-blank range in the heads. The teenager somehow survived the gun shot and escaped with her life only by pretending to be dead. Her testimony finally put William Kekana behind bars. These murders were not the first he had committed and would not have been the last had he not been caught.

http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/portrait-of-a-stone-faced-baby-killer-1.218267

http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/baby-kayla-s-killer-is-satan-himself-1.218234

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Cops-cant-forget-horror-20030808