WATCH: Family of slain Eskom employee demand answers

Yende’s body was found at Eskom’s Pieterboth substation 13 days after she went missing in May 2017. 

A technician who worked with Yende, David Ngwenya was arrested and is out on bail. 

Her brother, Mboneni Yende, says the key witness, in this case, has gone missing.

“We fail to understand why the only key witness who can help solve this case was left under the care of Eskom which happens to be the very same company that took her life. SAPS owes us and the public an explanation as to how the witness was not in police protection instead of Eskom,”

Yende says the family strongly believe Eskom was involved in his sister’s death. 

“Two days after her body was found at the substation, we staged a picket outside the substation, one of the crucial things we saw was surveillance cameras, which could help tell a story of what happened on the 17th when she went missing. 

But this year, when we went to the substation demanding the footage from the camera that was facing the room she was found in, we discovered the camera’s had been removed,"

Eskom spokesperson, Khulu Phasiwe, says the company has handed over the footage to police. 

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“The footage we have, which we have now given to the police, shows Ms. Yende coming into our facility and she was with another person in the car. After the incident where they went into the facility and left the cameras where working, but after a few days the cameras were not working and the police are investigating that matter,”

Phasiwe says he was not informed about a witness in Eskom’s care and adds it will not make sense for a witness to be placed under the utility’s care. 

The case will be back in court on the 28th of June.