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By Asanda Sokanyile 
8h ago
The families of the two 7-year-old boys whose naked, lifeless bodies were found floating in a dam Thursday night say they want answers from a man driving the truck in which they were last seen.
The children reportedly got into the back of a moving truck in the BM section, Khayelitsha, which was heading to Bosasa in Mfuleni.
The truck driver told the family that when he noticed the children in the truck, he stopped and let them out.
According to the children’s parents, their children were not alone in the truck, but everyone else had returned home the same day.
The boys, Linathi Ntshonga, who was hoping to be a cop and Miyolo Gwinta, an aspiring firefighter, are from Site B, Khayelitsha.
They disappeared two weeks ago around 6 pm when they got on the truck that was transporting people from Khayelitsha to Bosasa.
Lungisani Ntshonga, Linathi’s father, said he wants to know how the driver could have left the children almost 4 km away and “expect them to walk home alone.”
“It doesn’t make sense to me that he could have done something so reckless,” she said.
Thembakazi Gwinta, Miyolo’s mother, echoed Ntshonga’s sentiments, adding that the driver “should tell us where he left our children because the sniffer dogs went out to where they found them but could not detect their scents.”
“The dogs, however, picked him up at the newly built informal settlement, Covid, so we want him to tell us the truth so we can find closure.
“He was my only son, I already miss him, although I have made peace with what happened, I do want answers. The time he says he left them was too late for them to go swimming in the dam, what did he do to our children? she questioned.
Unemployed and struggling to make ends meet, the two children’s families said they now also had to shoulder the daunting task of having to collect R3 000 for DNA testing in order for the bodies to be conclusively identified as their children before they can bury them. they.
“They told us that if we wait for the state to test it, it could take up to two months and we can’t wait that long. Now we have to go out and borrow what we can from whoever can help so that we can at least have the bodies by Wednesday of next week, ”Ntshonga explained.
EFF regional secretary Banzi Dambuza said the children were found naked and their clothes not far from their floating bodies.
“There are two assumptions at this point; they were swimming and drowned in the water or they were thrown there and their clothes thrown there, ”he said.
Police said an investigation file had been opened.
“Police divers recovered the bodies of two children from a dam between Old Faure Road and the N2 road in Mfuleni late Thursday,” Brigadier Novela Potelwa said.
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