Khaya Magadla’s father: Police failed me in search for my son
The father of young Khayalethu Magadla has told mourners at his son’s memorial service that the police failed him in the search for the 6-year-old boy.
Kholekile Magadla was speaking at Khayalethu’s memorial service in Soweto on Friday.
Magadla said he went to the police station in Moroka on the day Khaya went missing.
He was only assisted two hours later, while a police van was only available in the wee hours of the morning.
“I am pained by the things that have been done by the government that I work for. It was around 01:00 or 02:00 when the vans came that could assist us. We went with the van to go and question Khaya’s friends around 2am. The same police left me there with the community to show that they didn’t care.”
Kholekile says he and the community only managed to get a breakthrough of Khaya’s whereabouts when his friends were questioned early Monday morning.
It took rescue teams three weeks to locate Khayalethu’s body after he fell into a manhole while playing with his friends on 12 June.
His body was only located last Saturday at the Eldorado Park cemetery’s waste water plant.
He will be laid to rest next Saturday.
