Overview
- Police say 15-year-old Xilaveko Suke was found on December 25 inside a one-room house at her father’s Rotterdam Village property with a visible stab wound and partial decomposition.
- The discovery followed a missing-persons report filed on December 22 after Suke left home with her father, Peter Themba Baloyi, reportedly en route to Giyani.
- Later on December 25, officers were called back after Baloyi’s house was found burned, and an arson investigation was opened.
- On December 26, Baloyi, 45, was discovered hanging from a tree in nearby bushes, and an inquest docket was registered to determine the circumstances of his death.
- SAPS says detectives have processed both scenes and are pursuing multiple lines of inquiry, urging anyone with information to contact the investigating officer or Crime Stop.