THE burial preparations were in full swing for the family’s final farewell for Siyanda Nzuza (21).
Then the young man’s uncle opened up his nephew’s coffin on Friday and saw it wasn’t Siyanda’s body, but that of a stranger!
When the uncle told the family the next day that the funeral had been called off, harsh words flew.
But on Monday afternoon Sabelo Shange (48) became the family hero when Siyanda returned home – very much alive!
Telling Daily Sun about how his pain turned to joy, Sabelo from Maphumulo, northern KZN said they were informed in September by a relative that Siyanda had been stabbed to death in Durban.
“We didn’t know whether it was true or not as my nephew disappeared in February. A few weeks ago I decided to go to the cops in the Durban CBD because the rumours were intensifying,” he said, adding that several days of searching came up with nothing.
Then early last week Sabelo received a call from the cops telling him that the body of an unidentified man found stabbed near the Durban University of Technology in September was in the mortuary.
“I sent my nephews to identify the corpse and they confirmed that it was that of Siyanda,” Sabelo said.
The family then started preparing for Siyanda’s funeral – until Sabelo opened the coffin on Friday.
Another relative told Sabelo that Siyanda had been spotted at South Beach making sand sculptures.
“On Sunday I told his cousins to look for him there and that is where they indeed found him wandering around. They brought him home on Monday. I was so excited that I slaughtered two goats,” Sabelo said.
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