Cops in the North West Province is aware of a video circulating on social media platforms regarding an incident in which a 25-year-old boy hacked his mother to the death at around 11:00 on Saturday, 04 October 2025, at Mosiane View village, Mahikeng.
“The son can be seen in the video using a shovel to hack his 48-year-old mother to death. It is alleged that the aggressive and uncontrollable son later succumbed to his injuries after being hit by one of the shots fired by a neighbour to calm him down,” Lieutenant Colonel Sam Tselanyane said.
The motive of the incident is unknown at this stage and investigations into the matter are underway.
The Acting Provincial Commissioner of Police in North West, Major General Patrick Asaneng said: “The sadistic, gruesome and senseless death of a mother at the hands of her son is symptomatic of the scourge of satanistic ritual practices or drug addiction to which most young people are exposed to and which unfortunately are often ignored by parents and a nonchalant, apathetic society. “There is no way that it can be said that there were no warning signs with the life of the suspect given the gratuitous demonic killing of his own mother. Even though he himself died after being shot, the SAPS Occult Related Crimes Unit will fully investigate this case in order to determine the cause and effect of this heinous social fabric internecine tragedy.”
