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Mother Xolisile Mpungose buries her four slain children

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Pinetown mother should have been celebrating the 17th birthday of her eldest daughter instead she had to stare at the flower-draped caskets containing the precious bodies of her children

But there was no cake or presents. Instead, on the day, the inconsolable mother was staring at the flower-draped caskets containing the precious bodies of Ayakha as well as her three other young children, at a marquee on the grounds adjacent to the Copesville Community Hall outside Pietermaritzburg.

Xolisile found the lifeless bodies of Kuhlekonke, 4, Khwezi, 6, and Siphesihle Mpungose, 10, hanging at their Wyebank home when she went home on Tuesday afternoon. Around the same time as she made the shocking find, Ayakha, an academic achiever at Pinetown Girls' High School, went missing after she was fetched from school.

A manhunt led to a gruesome discovery - her lifeless body near some bushes in New Germany. She had been strangled with the belt of a bathrobe. There were loud cries from the mourners as the coffins made their way into the venue, which was filled by about 1,000 people. These included pupils from Pinetown Girls' High and Pinetown Boys' High as well as Sithokozile Secondary School where Xolisile Mpungose teaches.Sbu Mpungose - Ayakha’s stepdad and the biological father of the three other children - was discovered hiding in KwaDebeka by police on Wednesday.

 

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