Thando Moloi shares a chilling account involving her in-laws — a story that has never been reported before. With full permission from Lusanda’s mother, who originally recounted the events, Thando now brings the disturbing details to light.
A 9 year old boy (Lusanda Brian Sithole)from Umlazi went missing on Sunday the 27th of April he was last seen with his friends who live in the same area it was about 6 boys who are almost the same age with him but he was the youngest in the group the oldest of them was 13 Years old. Lusanda’s mother got worried when it was getting dark and Lusanda had not returned home so she started going to the friend’s houses to Find out his whereabouts but Lusanda was nowhere to be found, the two boys who fetched Lusanda to go play came back home around 2pm but never reported that Lusanda was missing. When they were confronted in the afternoon, they said Lusanda was last seen at a school nearby, so the mother asked the boys to accompany her to look for Lusanda.
They got to the school and didn’t find him, they searched at parks and they decided to check hospitals aswel to see if he might have been hit by a car. They didn’t find him there aswel, they also checked mortuarys around them but still the boy was not found. The mother then decided to go to Bheki Themba police station in Umlazi BB section to ask for help in finding his son. When she was there, the police told her that the son might have been one of the boys reported to have drowned in a River in Welbedacht, which is 27KM away from home. The mother said it’s not possible because the two friends she was with never mentioned anything about going to a river.
The police told her that 2 boys from the group came earlier with their parent’s and reported that one of their friend fell in the river and the eldest friend(13 Years old) told them not to mention anything when they got home they got scared of what transpired at the river and they decided to tell their parents what happened earlier, the other two boys she’s been with the whole time searching also confessed that they promised not to say anything hence they kept quite this whole time.
So a search for a missing started and police went to the river to find Lusanda the mother then decided to open a Case this is the case number CAS 497/04/2025 the police with the help of the river rescue team searched for Lusanda for 2 days and was finally found two days later. (29/04/2025) the passing of Luu has left the family heartbroken and in disbelief because till this day none of his friends are telling the truth about what really happened at the river, no arrests have been made and the police haven’t given the family an update on the case. The eldest friend was nowhere to be found when the mother went to look for him for answers she was told that the mother sent him to the rural areas.
Lusanda will be buried this Saturday 10 May 2025. We are all really shattered about this young man’s passing and we Don’t know how we gonna bid him farewell with questions unanswered this really hurts please kindly assist us to get answers so that we as a family can get closure
For further information or clarity, Sizakeie Sithole can be contacted directly at 0728301801