A grieving mother blamed the police’s ineptness for allegedly failing to find her daughter while she was alive.

Vuyiswa Skosana believes that had the police deployed their resources, her daughter Bongiwe (28) would be alive.

The mother claims the Heidelberg police didn’t bother to probe Bongiwe’s kidnapping, which resulted in her brutal death four days after she was abducted in broad daylight.

Two armed men stormed into Skosana’s home, shoved Bongiwe into the boot of her granddaughter’s vehicle, and drove off with her.

The car was later abandoned near a cemetery in their neighborhood.

Vuyiswa unfolds the story of how her daughter, together with her two cousins, was robbed while she [Vuyiswa] was away for a family ceremony in KZN.

“I last saw my daughter on June 11, leaving for Tsakane. On the very same night, three armed men forced entry into her cousin’s outside room, demanding Bongiwe. Failing to find her, they tied him, robbed him, and left,” she says.

“On June 17, her cousin called me again while I was in New Castle, reporting that they were ambushed by other armed thugs who now demanded a cash safe. He further told me that my daughter was kidnapped during the act, a Toyota Corolla belonging to a family member was taken, and cell phones were also taken,” she says.

Vuyiswa says she arrived in Heidelberg the next day, where she went to the copshop to demand answers, but she couldn’t be helped.

“The police failed to deploy resources to trace my daughter. They have failed me dismally. They should have traced their cellphones, maybe Bongiwe would be alive.

“The police should have deployed their experts in my daughter’s missing case. They were clueless and didn’t have leads. I had to probe them continuously, asking if they had any leads. They didn’t bother tracing their phones,” she adds.

Bonginhlanhla Sekhoto, the aunt of the deceased, says she received WhatsApp messages from a friend who told her about two bodies found dumped along the R103 Road.

“She sent me images of my niece’s lifeless body facing the ground with her hands tied on her back and covered with a blanket. We quickly rushed to the scene, and the police asked us to identify her. She had bad bruises on her face,” she says.

Sekhoto confirms that there were other human remains next to the scene where Bongiwe was found.

“There was a cross on the same fields that signaled that there was another person who died in the same area. The area is clearly used for dumping bodies after gruesome murders,” she adds.

Gauteng provincial police spokesperson Colonel Dimakatso Nevhuhulwi says a case of murder is being investigated.