Canal next to informal settlement yields a fourth body After they heard news of the floating body, the community quickly flocked to the area to identify it while
A FOURTH decomposed body was found floating in a canal that runs along the Covid-19 informal settlement in Driftsands yesterday.
A community member, Gcinubuntu Qhanga, 34, said he was alerted to the floating body by a 9-year-old boy who was playing with others not far from the canal.
Qhanga said it was not the first time they had discovered a body floating in the canal. He said he was not even shocked because it was now becoming a norm to see bodies floating in it. some called the police to assist in retrieving it.
Police spokesperson Novela Potelwa confirmed that the unidentified body of a man estimated to be in his twenties was discovered, but it was believed that it was not linked to the four victims of an alleged mob justice attack that happened in the area last week.
The discovery of the most recent body comes a day after the body of 15-year-old Asonele Wanga, one of the four victims of an alleged mob justice attack, was discovered in the same canal at the weekend.
Wanga’s body was discovered a few days after two other unidentified bodies were found floating in the same canal, as the police divers were searching for the bodies of Wanga, Maphelo Mazamisa, 23, Sabelo Rasmeni, 21, and Yonela Mdladlama, 22.
The police were still searching for their bodies.
Mfuleni Community Police Forum (CPF) chairperson Anthony Parish said they were sick and tired of crime, but that certainly does not mean people should take the law into their own hands or attempt to solve the problem themselves.
Anyone with information can contact Crime Stop at 0860010111, or Detective Sergeant Nkululeko Magqaza on 082 777 6898.