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Tshegofatso Pule was missing for 4 days prior to her body was found.
A 31- year-old man has actually been charged with the murder of a South African female whose stabbed body was found hanging from a tree recently.
Twenty-eight-year-old Tshegofatso Pule was 8 months pregnant.
Mzikayise Malephane appeared in court and was charged with premeditated murder.
After her death, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said the culture of silence around gender-based violence needed to end.
Ms Pule went missing on 4 June and 4 days later a member of the public found her body in the Johannesburg suburban area of Roodepoort.
She was hanging from a tree and had actually been stabbed through the chest.
There was a wave of outrage in South Africa after Ms Pule’s death and the hashtag #JusticeForTshego trended on Twitter.
What happened in court?
Mr Malephane was detained on Monday and appeared in court on Wednesday.
In the brief look he was not asked to plead, reports the newspaper The Sowetan.
The case has actually been postponed until 24 June to allow him to get legal representation.
The authorities have not exposed if he was understood to the deceased.
The authorities have actually attracted the general public to assist with the examination – they suspect that more individuals were included.