ORANGE FARMS.- The NWU Vaal student – Siyabonga Mkhwanazi who was reported missing by Sedibeng Ster last week has been found dead.
His body was found at the Sebokeng Mortuary. Sedibeng Ster reported last week that Mkhwanazi went missing after he went to visit his friend at Bohlale Village, a student’s residence in Vanderbijlpark.
This week Sedibeng Ster received a call from one of the family’s friends saying that Mkhwanazi was found at the Sebokeng Mortuary.
When Sedibeng Ster called, Gabisile Motloung who is Mkhwanazi’s mother, she confirmed the news of her son’s passing. She told Sedibeng Ster that police said they found the body of her son on the N1 Highway and said that he was hit by a car. However, the mother said her son didn’t look like he was hit by a car but rather he looked as though he was assaulted before he was apparently thrown on the N1.
Motloung said she has already opened a murder case with the police based on her son disappeared.
Sedibeng Ster reported last week that it was alleged that Mkhwanazi asked for a lift from a white double cab vehicle after realising that he could no longer get taxi’s following the visit as it was late, and that was the last time he was seen alive.
However, long before he was found, there was suspicions about his disappearance with many believing that he was kidnapped after the family had been told about SMS’s that were doing rounds and were exchanged by some his friends.
“Police claimed that my son was hit by a car but I don’t believe this based on the information that I got about his disappearance. Firstly I was told that my son went to visit one of his friends at Bohlale Village in Vanderbijlpark and asked for a lift from a white cab and the next thing I found him at a mortuary in Sebokeng with a police report saying he was hit by a car on the N1. This all does not make sense. The question that we as a family are asking ourselves is how did he end up on the N1? We have already open a case of murder because we suspect that somebody is behind my son’s death,” said Motloung.
Mkhwanazi, from Orange Farms was a Public Governance and Politics student at the North West University (NWU) Vaal branch. He will be buried on Saturday at the Evaton Cemetery.