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Pink nails, two teeth: How a family ID’d their daughter’s remains

18 June 2019 - 08:00 By Nonkululeko Njilo
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Mpho Nyakane, whose daughter Naledi Nyakane was mutilated and murdered in Welkom.
Mpho Nyakane, whose daughter Naledi Nyakane was mutilated and murdered in Welkom.
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Sebina Lethoba screamed when she spotted the wristband and coloured nails belonging to a severely burnt corpse at the Welkom mortuary. The body was her niece’s.

The church wristband, pink nails and a gold and a silver tooth were the only things the family of Naledi Lethoba, 21, could use to identify her.

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