The remains of Miss Lungile Khumalo from Stulwane, Bergville, who has been missing for 9 years, have been found on Mtshezi cliff.
This comes after Ms Khumalo’s daughter posted her video on social media saying that she wants to know where her mother went and what happened to her.
In this video, the daughter can be heard speaking like this. ”Hello, my name is… I live with my grandmother, brother and sister. I would like to ask where my mother went, I don’t know her and I have never seen her. Please tell me the truth, please, poor thing,” he said.
After this video, according to the Mayor of Khahlamba, Mr. Vikizitha Mlotshwa, the brother of the missing woman, Mr. Bongani Khumalo, went to the local police station.
“Fortunately, he found a diligent new station manager, father Khanyi, who immediately stood up when he heard the matter and called the police, and that’s how the investigation into this case began,” explained Mlotshwa.
He said the police in their investigation finally discovered that there was another man who had escaped after eating an ampowana in a bar and talking to Lungile’s husband, Mr. Mandla Dladla (50) saying that he was going to say that he killed his wife and buried her.
”The police wasted no time and went to pick up the man who turned out to be Dladla’s neighbor. A man showed the police to Dladla’s house where Ms Khumalo was buried but her remains were not found,” he said.
After that, the neighbor is said to have told the police that because he did not trust Dladla, he chose to come back alone, dig up Ms Khumalo’s body and go and bury it at Mtshezi cliff.
”Then we went there with the police. When they were excavated, the bones of a woman were indeed found. The police wasted no time in arresting Ms Khumalo’s husband,” he said.
It turns out that the argument between Dladla and Ms. Khumalo was that Dladla was accusing his wife of being pregnant by someone else.
Today, Dladla is expected to appear before the Bergiville Magistrate’s Court. The neighbor who helped the police has not been arrested.
“We want Dladla not to get bail because he has shown to be very cruel,” exclaimed Mlotshwa.
This incident of killing and burying Ms. Khumalo appears to have happened in 2018.
Ms. Khumalo’s brother, he said Isoleze that they are happy that they will finally bury their bones. However, he said they were very worried about the decision taken by Dladla since they trusted him a lot.
He told him that his sister got pregnant out of wedlock and that this was the reason for the argument. He said they separated and his sister got pregnant by another man and Dladla will beg him to get back together, and he will come back with a longe.
KwaZulu-Natal police spokesperson, Captain Ntathu Ndlovu, said the Bergville police are investigating a case of murder after human remains were found. He said that after this the husband of the deceased was arrested.
Sources in the police said that the bones are yet to be examined to confirm whether they really belong to Ms Khumalo. It said this could cause a delay in the case and that the remains be handed over to the family legally for self-burial if they wish to do so.