Missing Grade 9 pupil found dead

The badly decomposed body of a teenage girl (16), who went missing recently, was found near her homestead on Thursday.

Khethokuhle Ayanda Ncube of the Mnqadi area in KwaMthethwa was last seen going to the local shop to buy airtime for her mother. She never returned.

Worried, the Mthiyane family reported her missing to the police. A community search ensued, but Ncube, a Grade 9 pupil at Ogome Secondary School, was nowhere to be found…

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