Speaking to Drum magazine, the musician says her mother was found dead in her Eastern Cape home on Sunday.
Tina says she only learned of her mother’s death on Monday.
“The authorities are still busy with the autopsy, but all signs indicate that my mom was brutally killed,” she told the publication.
Tina says indications are that her mother was strangled to death.
“Her upper body was rotten, and she was also found naked.”
The emotional singer added that her mother never slept naked.
“I’m going to miss mom, she was my rock and we were very close.”
Tina says her mother will be buried at their family graveyard.
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