Shock death of student
He sustained severe skin and inhalation burns when his apartment by the Greens in Grahamstown caught alight
The son of an HOD at the Islamic Educational Centre died this week after being burned in a flat fire.
23-year-old Alvin Ziyambi, an Accounting student at Rhodes University, sustained severe skin and inhalation burns when his apartment by the Greens in Grahamstown caught alight on Tuesday, November 5. He succumbed to his injuries on Monday this week.
Alvin is the son of Mr KT Ziyambi who is an HOD at the Islamic Educational Centre (IEC) in Ladysmith.
According to his friends at university, Alvin was young, funny and very popular. He was a third-year student studying Information Systems and Economics towards a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce. His distraught father was at school when news filtered through that Alvin was trapped in his flat that was on fire. Fellow students managed to get Alvin out and he was transferred to St George’s Hospital in Port Elizabeth.
Members of staff, pupils and the Board of Governors have expressed shock, and send their condolences to the Ziyambi family.
