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Zanele Moyo killed for witchcraft?
04 Nov 2015 at 07:12hrs | Views
Professor Jonathan Moyo's family friend Philip Chiyangwa said it was possible that Zanele Moyo's body had witchraft concoctions done on it before being handed to the parents.
Chiyangwa forwards this postulation as it emerged that Zanele's body was released incomplete with the heart having been taken out. Zanele, was buried without a heart, The State Media reported.
The post-mortem, conducted at the insistence of the family which suspects foul play in Zanele's death, was the second following another conducted by Dr Sipho Mfolozi at the Salt River Forensic Pathology Laboratory in Cape Town on October 19.
Chiyangwa said: "We can't wrap our heads around what has just happened. We're still trying to unravel what killed Zanele, and now we must worry about who took her heart and for what reason?"
He said they were battling with several possible scenarios, including negligence by the Salt River Laboratory, an attempt to conceal evidence or even witchcraft.
A crack team of Zimbabwean detectives probing the student's death last month in Cape Town broke discovered that Zanele's heart was missing following a second post-mortem conducted in Harare.
Dr Gabriel Alviero Gonzalez and Dr Tsungai Victor Javangwe, both forensic pathologists at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare, conducted a post-mortem examination of Zanele's body on October 22.
The post-mortem, conducted at the insistence of the family which suspects foul play in Zanele's death, was the second following another conducted by Dr Sipho Mfolozi at the Salt River Forensic Pathology Laboratory in Cape Town on October 19.
Zimbabwean investigators now believe Zanele's heart was removed by pathologists during the autopsy in Cape Town and never placed back inside her body before it was released to her family. Zanele's body was found lying face-down in the bathroom of her third floor Cape Town apartment on October 17.
She was buried at Glen Forest Memorial Park in Harare on October 23, but the family was only told of the discovery of the missing heart days later after Dr Gonzalez and Dr Javangwe handed their findings to the Criminal Investigations Department, which is leading the Zimbabwe investigation.
Chiyangwa forwards this postulation as it emerged that Zanele's body was released incomplete with the heart having been taken out. Zanele, was buried without a heart, The State Media reported.
The post-mortem, conducted at the insistence of the family which suspects foul play in Zanele's death, was the second following another conducted by Dr Sipho Mfolozi at the Salt River Forensic Pathology Laboratory in Cape Town on October 19.
Chiyangwa said: "We can't wrap our heads around what has just happened. We're still trying to unravel what killed Zanele, and now we must worry about who took her heart and for what reason?"
He said they were battling with several possible scenarios, including negligence by the Salt River Laboratory, an attempt to conceal evidence or even witchcraft.
Dr Gabriel Alviero Gonzalez and Dr Tsungai Victor Javangwe, both forensic pathologists at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare, conducted a post-mortem examination of Zanele's body on October 22.
The post-mortem, conducted at the insistence of the family which suspects foul play in Zanele's death, was the second following another conducted by Dr Sipho Mfolozi at the Salt River Forensic Pathology Laboratory in Cape Town on October 19.
Zimbabwean investigators now believe Zanele's heart was removed by pathologists during the autopsy in Cape Town and never placed back inside her body before it was released to her family. Zanele's body was found lying face-down in the bathroom of her third floor Cape Town apartment on October 17.
She was buried at Glen Forest Memorial Park in Harare on October 23, but the family was only told of the discovery of the missing heart days later after Dr Gonzalez and Dr Javangwe handed their findings to the Criminal Investigations Department, which is leading the Zimbabwe investigation.
Source - chronicle
