SowetanLive reports that the body of a missing police detective, Warrant Officer Nosipho Mphakathi, was found floating in Umzimvubu River on Saturday afternoon.  

Mphakathi, 40, was stationed at Port St Johns police station and was reported missing on Friday   She was last been seen by her 16-year-old son leaving her homestead at Tyibane locality in Port St Johns on 8 December at about 11pm.  A police spokesperson advised that an inquest docket had been registered.  According to the Police, Prison and Civil Rights Union (Popcru) in the Eastern Cape, Mphakathi did not take her own life and the union called for speedy arrests if investigations indicated that he death was not an accident.  Popcru provincial chair Loyiso Mdingi said their call came in the context of SA’s scourge of gender-based violence.  He said:  “We strongly condemn any form of abuse of women and children.  Now a woman who is dead is a policewoman, someone who committed her life to protecting the country and its citizens.  She died under mysterious circumstances.”

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Lulamile Feni at SowetanLive
• See too, Body of Eastern Cape cop found in Mzimvubu River, at News24

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