A MANKWENG, Limpopo, family has accused the police of mishandling an investigation into their daughter's death 10 months ago.
Nomsa Mantsho was in the company of friends in a bakkie when she fell and died. No-one has been held accountable for Nomsa's death and her family believes police did not investigate the matter properly.
Mantsho died on June 8 last year, a week before she would have turned 20.
Her angry mother, Rahab Mantsho, said her daughter's friend came to fetch her from home on that Friday afternoon. She did not return home and on Sunday another friend, who was also her classmate at Hwiti High School, came to tell the family that their daughter had fallen from a moving bakkie and died after a drinking spree at a local tavern.
Mantsho's body was found on the morning of June 9 near a supermarket with a large wound on her back that suggested she could have been stabbed with a sharp object.
"We visited the scene of the accident and found nothing that suggested she fell there from a moving bakkie," he mother said.
She said the police did not interrogate the owner of the bakkie about what actually happened.
"Even if my daughter had fallen from his car he should at least have reported the matter to the police, if not us," she said.
Mankweng police spokesman Constable Moses Molepo said the police had done all that was expected of them. He asked anyone with information to report come forward "and we will re-visit the case." - frankm@sowetan.co.za
Family still waits for answers after daughter's death
A MANKWENG, Limpopo, family has accused the police of mishandling an investigation into their daughter's death 10 months ago.
Nomsa Mantsho was in the company of friends in a bakkie when she fell and died. No-one has been held accountable for Nomsa's death and her family believes police did not investigate the matter properly.
Mantsho died on June 8 last year, a week before she would have turned 20.
Her angry mother, Rahab Mantsho, said her daughter's friend came to fetch her from home on that Friday afternoon. She did not return home and on Sunday another friend, who was also her classmate at Hwiti High School, came to tell the family that their daughter had fallen from a moving bakkie and died after a drinking spree at a local tavern.
Mantsho's body was found on the morning of June 9 near a supermarket with a large wound on her back that suggested she could have been stabbed with a sharp object.
"We visited the scene of the accident and found nothing that suggested she fell there from a moving bakkie," he mother said.
She said the police did not interrogate the owner of the bakkie about what actually happened.
"Even if my daughter had fallen from his car he should at least have reported the matter to the police, if not us," she said.
Mankweng police spokesman Constable Moses Molepo said the police had done all that was expected of them. He asked anyone with information to report come forward "and we will re-visit the case." - frankm@sowetan.co.za
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