Captain Buyisile Mvelase, Colonel Nthene Tieho and Vosloorus SAPS media liaision officer, Constable Nompumelelo Nhlapo.
Family members, his colleagues and community members gathered to pay their last tributes and share their stories and the experiences they had with the heroic cop.
Thango was a Vosloorus police officer who started training with the SAPS in 2018. He served in the SAPS for five years before being killed when responding to a business robbery at Gold Spot, Vosloorus, on July 21.
He was laid to rest at South Park Cemetery on July 29.
Seipati Motsweneng, Busisiwe Ntuli, Sibongile Langa and Sergeant Irene Papo.Captain Buyisile Mvelase, Colonel Nthene Tieho and Vosloorus SAPS media liaision officer, Constable Nompumelelo Nhlapo.Colonel Moiponi Mokoena.Captain David Mahlango, Colonel Giyane and Colonel Vusi Mhlophe.Vosloorus CPF members Nonhlanhla Zwane, Nomsa Cokwe and Cebisile Mabaso.Vosloorus Youth Desk members.Police officers sang and danced as they remembered Constable Siyabonga Thango.Constable Siyabonga Thango’s brothers and siblings, Kabelo, Lwazi and Nhlanhla Thango.Police officers celebrated Constable Siyabonga Thango’s life.Sergeant Samuel Makongoza, Captain Sampie Botha and Bhuti Matshika.Members of the SAPS and the CPF after the memorial service.Sergeants Ntokozo Msibi and Nomsa Mathiba from the Zonkizizwe SAPS.Katlehong North SAPS station commander Brigadier Albertina Ves.Constable Siyabonga Thango’s colleagues.Ekurhuleni District SAPS chaplain, Warrant Officer Mine Bethuel, and Captain Godfry Booysen.Constable Siyabonga Thango’s sister, Mbali Thango.Dipontsha Modise and Vosloorus CPF secretary Adele Cindi.Sergeants Maxwel Mabunda and Richard Negolokwe.Colonel Moiponi Mokoena, Duduza SAPS station commander Lieutenant Colonel Sarah Mofukeng and Captain Motale Matebello.
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