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Jonathan Moyo's daughter bled to death
21 Oct 2015 at 06:29hrs | Views
ZANELE Moyo, the daughter of Higher and Tertiary Education Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo bled to her death in her Cape Town apartment bathroom, a dramatic new photograph shows. The picture obtained by The Chronicle yesterday reveals a floor smeared with what appears to be a significant amount of blood. The blood appears to start from the doorway of the bathroom leading to a toilet cubicle. It is the spot where the University of Cape Town student's lifeless body was found lying face down shortly before midday last Saturday.
She was fully clothed, dressed in the same outfit she had been last seen wearing on Wednesday last week - the day her family believes she met her fate. Her family says despite earlier being told by police that Zanele also had a head injury, the coroner had found no external injuries. A small depression on her forehead, which had become covered in blood, is thought to have misled early police responders.
South African police say the cause of death remains a mystery, but they are tracking two Zambian men, including one Stephen Kenneth Newman Chitobolo, who was the last to be seen with Zanele.
Stephen, according to sources close to the investigation, has become a key person of interest after he used Zanele's phone last Wednesday evening to call her friend, Nicole Bento, to tell her Zanele was "passing out". Nicole did not make much of the call, believing her friend had just taken one too many.
Stephen, who was thought to have fled to Zambia, was spotted at the OR Tambo International Airport last night by Zanele's friend and sister, who were travelling to Zimbabwe. He has told the Moyo family and investigators that he will hand himself in before Friday this week to help detectives piece together Zanele's final few hours.
The second man, who has been named as Leo Milimo, is thought to have left Cape Town for Johannesburg or Pretoria. Leo, according to Zanele's friends, introduced Zanele to Stephen three weeks ago after having earlier met her through a mutual friend, Rumbidzai Choto.
As the family digests the distressing new image of the bloodied scene where Zanele drew her last breath, concerns were being raised last night over the pace and course of the police investigation.
The Moyo family has expressed dismay over the handling of the criminal investigation which, apart from Stephen's account, hinges on a post mortem and toxicology tests whose results police have now told the family could take up to six weeks.
The family says when Zanele's body was found on Saturday morning, she was still wearing the same clothes she wore to a dinner date with Stephen on Wednesday evening. But the family says given all the facts available to them and the police, they were shocked when they received her death certificate on Monday which indicated the date of death as the day her body was found.
She was fully clothed, dressed in the same outfit she had been last seen wearing on Wednesday last week - the day her family believes she met her fate. Her family says despite earlier being told by police that Zanele also had a head injury, the coroner had found no external injuries. A small depression on her forehead, which had become covered in blood, is thought to have misled early police responders.
South African police say the cause of death remains a mystery, but they are tracking two Zambian men, including one Stephen Kenneth Newman Chitobolo, who was the last to be seen with Zanele.
Stephen, according to sources close to the investigation, has become a key person of interest after he used Zanele's phone last Wednesday evening to call her friend, Nicole Bento, to tell her Zanele was "passing out". Nicole did not make much of the call, believing her friend had just taken one too many.
Stephen, who was thought to have fled to Zambia, was spotted at the OR Tambo International Airport last night by Zanele's friend and sister, who were travelling to Zimbabwe. He has told the Moyo family and investigators that he will hand himself in before Friday this week to help detectives piece together Zanele's final few hours.
The second man, who has been named as Leo Milimo, is thought to have left Cape Town for Johannesburg or Pretoria. Leo, according to Zanele's friends, introduced Zanele to Stephen three weeks ago after having earlier met her through a mutual friend, Rumbidzai Choto.
As the family digests the distressing new image of the bloodied scene where Zanele drew her last breath, concerns were being raised last night over the pace and course of the police investigation.
The Moyo family has expressed dismay over the handling of the criminal investigation which, apart from Stephen's account, hinges on a post mortem and toxicology tests whose results police have now told the family could take up to six weeks.
The family says when Zanele's body was found on Saturday morning, she was still wearing the same clothes she wore to a dinner date with Stephen on Wednesday evening. But the family says given all the facts available to them and the police, they were shocked when they received her death certificate on Monday which indicated the date of death as the day her body was found.
Source - chronicle
