The body of Gabisile Shabane, the 13-year-old girl with albinism who was kidnapped with another child from their home in Hlalanikahle in Mpumalanga in January, has finally been identified through DNA tests.
Her mother Annah Shabane said they can now finally make funeral arrangements.
Gabisile and 15-month-old Nkosikhona Ngwenya were kidnapped from their home on January 28, allegedly by three men who entered the house through a broken window.
Gabisile’s headless body was found buried in a shallow grave in Cullinan, east of Pretoria, in the third week of February while Nkosikhona’s body was found on the side of the N4 freeway in Mpumalanga in the same week.
Shabane was speaking outside the Witbank Magistrate’s Court shortly after traditional healer Thokozani Msibi, as well as Brilliant Mkhize, Themba Thubane and Knowledge Mhlanga appeared in connection with the kidnapping and murder of the children.
The DNA process on Gabisile's body took longer than usual due to the fact that her body was contaminated with brake fluid.
Gabisile was forced to drink brake fluid, before she was brutally murdered.
A trial date has been set for 19 August 2019.
