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THE COUSIN of slain former ANC Youth League secretary-general Sindiso Magaqa says the family remain baffled as to why the toxicology report on Magaqa has still not been released.

Speaking to African News Agency at the Moerane Commission yesterday, where he was giving testimony on behalf of the family, Lwazi Magaqa said police informed the family in September last year that they had sent tissue samples to Pretoria to ascertain if Magaqa had been poisoned.

Magaqa, a PR councillor at uMhlathuze Local Municipality at the time of his death, was gunned down along with colleagues Nontsikelelo Mafa and Jabu Msiya in the uMzimkhulu area in July, 2017.

Magaqa died in September due to “complications from multiple gunshot wounds”, according to police, while Mafa and Msiya both survived.

Lwazi told commissioners Vasu Gounden, chairman Marumo Moe0rane and Professor Cheryl Potgieter the family still did not understand how Sindiso could have died, as around the time of his death he was preparing to undergo physiotherapy.

Lwazi said rumours surfaced that his cousin may have been poisoned, because Sindiso had started complaining of stomach pains.

“All of the wounds (Sindiso sustained from multiple gunshot wounds) were in his legs,” said Lwazi. Major-General Victoria Mekute said she would “follow up” to see why the toxicology report had not yet been released. – African News Agency/ANA