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

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.

Mpho Nyakane, whose daughter Naledi Nyakane was mutilated and murdered in Welkom.
Mpho Nyakane, whose daughter Naledi Nyakane was mutilated and murdered in Welkom. (Emile Bosch/TimesLIVE)

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.