The Sunday Mail
THE body of a man from Tsholotsho in Matabeleland North province was found floating in a dam with a deep cut on the chest and some body parts missing after he had disappeared for three days, in what his family suspects was a ritual murder.
The body of Xolani Ngwenya was found with the tongue and one of the ears reportedly missing.
The discovery led to the arrest of John Dube (43) from Lukukwe Line, Innocent Mando (32) from Hlalanikuhle Line, Immanuel Dube (48) of Efusini and Blessing Dube (34) from Magwadeni Line in Tsholotsho area.
Ngwenya was buried amid dramatic scenes.
Burial proceedings were temporarily halted after family members demanded the missing body parts, saying they could not bury an “incomplete body”.
The family was reportedly insisting they needed to know where the parts had gone and who had removed them. There was suspicion the body parts were taken for ritual purposes.
Meanwhile, the four suspects have since appeared before a Tsholotsho resident magistrate, charged with murder as defined in Section 47 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act Chapter 9:23.
They were not asked to plead and were remanded in custody to May 15. The four were advised to apply for bail at the High Court.
Allegations against them are that, on March 19 and around 9pm, Innocent, Immanuel and Blessing went to one of the bottle stores at the Tsholotsho Business Centre, where they picked up one of their accomplices, John, and the now deceased.
They then reportedly proceeded to Zikhululeni Dam, claiming they were going for fishing.
It is alleged the four eventually killed Ngwenya and threw his body in the dam for a yet to be established reason.
They then took his clothes from the car and left them on the edge of the dam, before they went to their respective homes.
Ngwenya’s body was found on March 22 by one of the villagers; it was floating in Zikhululeni Dam.
The villager notified the police, who then retrieved the body from the dam before they took it for post-mortem.
The body had a stab wound on the chest and its mouth was swollen.
Investigations led to the arrest of the four suspects and their subsequent appearance in court. — B-Metro
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Grandad found alive a decade after he was ‘cremated’
An elderly man has stunned his relatives by making a remarkable “return from the dead”, nine years after he was mistakenly thought to have been cremated following an escape from a care home.
The grandad has been found alive and well.
Zhuo Kangluo was identified by the authorities after his grandson recognised him on a missing persons poster.
The elderly man had refused to answer any questions from investigators before a DNA test showed a clear match with his brother — confounding a family who had spent years believing he was dead.
Mr Kangluo’s remarkable tale began when he fled a care home back in 2014, with relatives and villagers reportedly mistakenly identifying him with a body found by a roadside in the area shortly afterwards.
The body of the person, now known not to be Zhuo, was cremated shortly afterwards, as his nephew said he did not want an autopsy to be taken.
He was then assumed dead until he resurfaced this year after the authorities in the Chinese province of Chongqing followed up reports of a man acting strangely by filing a missing person’s report.
An emotional family reunion following the DNA test results saw Mr Kangluo reportedly brought to tears.
The authorities are now looking to establish the identity of the cremated person, according to China News Network.
Back in 2021, a man thought to have died in a plane crash 45 years earlier, left relatives stunned when he made a similar “return from the dead”.
The 70-year-old left his hometown of Sasthamkotta in India in October 1976 to support his family by working in the Persian Gulf.
But disaster struck when one of the engines on his Indian Airlines flight from Bombay to Madras caught fire, killing 95 people on board.
Sajid’s parents, four sisters and three brothers believed he was among the dead but in reality, he travelled to Abu Dhabi, where he got a job promoting Indian culture overseas and organising screenings of Malayalam movies. — Wires
