Memorial service for Centurion teenager
Shayleen van Zanten (15) to be remembered by friends and family.
A memorial service will be held on Christmas Eve for a Centurion teenager recently killed for her cellphone in KwaZulu-Natal.
Shayleen van Zanten (15) will reportedly be remembered by friends and family at the Kerk Sonder Mure in Centurion at 11:00.
The young girl will be cremated.
Van Zanten, a pupil of Hoërskool Eldoraigne and member of the Forest Knights hockey club, was murdered last Wednesday while on holiday with her father and friends in Trafalgar.
An identikit of the man accused of stabbing her to death has since been released by the Margate police.
The wanted man was reportedly wearing a red T-shirt with knee-length black pants and oversize slops. He is short and between 25-30 years old.
The man spoke broken English.
The Trafalgar CPF has offered an R18 000 reward for information leading to the successful conviction of the man. The police also posted a reward.
Provincial police spokesperson Major Thulani Zwane said Van Zanten and her friends were taking a walk when they noticed a man walking towards them in Falke Land Road.
The girls had turned back to their beach house, but the man blocked Van Zanten at the entrance gate. He demanded her cellphone but she refused. He then stabbed in the chest, groin and arm.
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