Man found in a pool of blood

The community of Tshiozwi village in the Sinthumule area is still reeling with shock after the news that a 44-year-old man was found dead inside his house.

The incident took place last Wednesday afternoon.

According to the spokesperson for the Tshilwavhusiku police, Const Musiwalo Mahuwa, a family member returned home and found Mr Patrick Ramabulana lying in a pool of blood. “The cause of death is not known at this stage,” said Mahuwa. Mahuwa added that Ramabulana had stab wounds on his body, which could have resulted in his death.

"A postmortem will be conducted to shed more light on the case,” he said. “We have opened an inquest docket, following the incident.”

The chairperson for the Sinthumule Traditional Council, Khotsimunene Vho-Makhado Sinthumule, expressed the council's shock and pain following the incident. “Ri pfa vhutungu nga maanda (Our pain is not small),” he said. “We cry and mourn with the Ramabulana family. We ask God to give them strength in this time of mourning, after they have lost their loved one.”

Ramabulana was a teacher in Mpumalanga.

Date:21 November 2013

By: Tshifhiwa Mukwevho

Tshifhiwa Given Mukwevho was born in 1984 in Madombidzha village, not far from Louis Trichardt in the Limpopo Province. After submitting articles for roughly a year for Limpopo Mirror's youth supplement, Makoya, he started writing for the main newspaper. He is a prolific writer who published his first book, titled A Traumatic Revenge in 2011. It focusses on life on the street and how to survive amidst poverty. His second book titled The Violent Gestures of Life was published in 2014.

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