Family and friends of murdered Eskom employee pitch a picket in Sunninghill
SUNNINGHILL – Read what murdered Eskom employee, Thembisile Yende's family and community were doing outside Eskom Megawatt Park.
Family, friends and the community of LangaVille Ext 8, Ward 79 in Brakpan, East Rand pitched a picket outside Eskom Megawatt Park in Sunninghill on 20 March demanding answers for the alleged murder of Eskom employee and their beloved child, Thembisile Yende.
This comes after the 29-year-old’s body was found at Eskom’s Pieterboth substation more than a week after her family reported her missing on 17 May last year.
“I am hurting as a mother that till today I have not received any answers regarding my daughter’s death. We were first told that Thembisile committed suicide. Two days later, when we went to the government mortuary, we found out that my daughter had been suffocated and stabbed – these results proved that she was murdered,” the mother of the deceased, Nester Yende said.
In a quivering voice, Nester added that she was not coping following her daughter’s death. “This is why me and my family along with our friends and community are here today so that we can see justice for my daughter. I will fight for justice until we get it.”
The distraught mother added that Eskom officials never paid them a visit since the funeral of her daughter last year.
“Thembisile was a very humble person and wanted to do the right thing. My child was murdered because she wanted to blow the whistle on criminal activities at Eskom and now we want answers as to why she was killed.”
Thembisile allegedly had information about a copper cable theft syndicate.
Her murder saw the arrest of her supposed lover, a 43-year-old technician at Eskom, David Ngwenya, in June last year. He appeared in the Springs Magistrates’ Court in November last year, however, the case was then postponed to 18 April.
Ngwenya is accused of injecting his lover, Thembisile, with a substance before striking her on the head with a crowbar and subsequently suffocating and strangling her after a struggle in May.
He allegedly killed her after he became suspicious that she would ‘spill the beans’ on his alleged involvement in a copper cable theft syndicate.
“We came here to Megawatt Park to hand in our memorandum and we are waiting for answers from Eskom, they told us they will get back to us. We as the family believe that there is more information that Eskom doesn’t tell us as they are holding crucial information that could help with the investigation such as CCTV footage,” the brother of the deceased, Mboneni Yende said.
Eskom is yet to give comment on this story.
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