Zim student found dead in SA university

By Emelia Motsai

SOUTH AFRICA – Police are investigating a murder case after a female Zimbabwean student was found dead in her room in a residence at the Vaal University of Technology in Vanderbijlpark.

According to Colonel Lungelo Dlamini, Nozipho Tshuma’s body was discovered in her locked room on Saturday. He said he could not confirm allegations that she had been raped and strangled but a murder investigation was underway.

A member of the Student Representative Council who did not want to be named said it was not surprising that someone was allegedly murdered at the University’s residence because the security there was almost “non-existent”.

Tshuma’s body is to be taken back home to Zimbabwe on Friday, someone with knowledge of the incident said.

Dlamini said no arrest has been made yet.

At the University of Free State, the body of Sinethemba Shezi (22) was found early on Thursday morning in the Elands River. Shezi went missing last week after him and his friend were attacked while walking to the university’s QwaQwa campus.

Zandile Zinu, a student from the University of Johannesburg also went missing on Monday. The 20-year-old art student is reported to have been unhappy with her life and distant before she disappeared. She was last seen at on Monday at the Kingsway campus’s bus stop at about 9.30am. Citizen