When Vusimuzi Silwanyan’s daughter was brutally murdered last week he left it to local police to deal with the matter. After they failed to make headway in the case he took matters into his own hands, and apprehended the killers in just five days.
Last week Silwanyan’s daughter, Nontombi Jonginamba, was savagely hacked to death with a screwdriver in her home in Cape Town. Her mother, who the 14-year old lived with in Gugulethu, discovered her lifeless body. She had been stripped to her underwear, her throat was slit and she had been stabbed repeatedly. At the time of the killing her father, 42, was in Durban.
After it seemed that the police were making no progress with their investigation, Silwanyan, a trained soldier, travelled to Cape Town to launch his own investigation. “I would not rest until the men who stabbed my daughter to death were caught,” he says.
With the help of the local community he managed to track down the killers in just five days.
There was a lot of talk in the community that somebody knew these boys.
So we put out word that anyone who knows anything should come forward.
And over the weekend we were contacted by a woman who said she bought alcohol from these boys who claimed to have killed a girl.
We caught the one first and took him to the police where he started talking.
It was later found that the murder was the result of a foiled robbery.
My daughter was killed because they did not want her identifying them.
The accused, aged 19, 34 and 36, were arrested on Tuesday morning and were due to appear in court today.
