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A HEARTBROKEN Thembi Canniban (44, middle), mother of the late Ayanda Canniban, with the picture of her son is sitting with Ntombi Moilwanyana (left) and Thoko Tshabalala. Photo: Tladi Moloi
Boy killed for Cavellas
Parents say their only child wanted ‘to achieve great things’ } Tladi Moloi BETHLEHEM. – Scores of mourners joined the grief-stricken family of Ayanda Canniban (17) to bid a sad farewell to the murdered Bohlokong-born boy. Ayanda was laid to rest in Bohlokong, Bethlehem, on Saturday. He died at home in the early hours of Sunday morning a week ago after he had allegedly been stabbed to death on his way home from a party that learners had organised to celebrate the end of the examinations.
The late Ayanda was a gr. 11 learner of the Witteberg High School in Bethlehem. The school has issued his school reportcard with two distinctions but the young boy will never see a gr. 12 class. Thembi Canniban (44), his mother, described her son as a hard worker who always wanted to achieve great things. She said he was their friend who had always made them happy. “Our life will never be the same without Ayanda,” said the heartbroken mother. Thembi said Ayanda was her only child. She said she could not believe it when she
had received a call telling her that her only child had been stabbed. “I, together with his father and grandfather, rushed to the scene. When we got there, my child was lying helplessly on the ground. I touched him and kept calling his name. He was tired since he had lost much blood. He opened his eyes and closed them again,” she said. According to her, the boys who called her were walking behind her son when they saw him being grabbed by a group of about five men who took his Cavella shoes, cellphone and a jersey. His father
put Ayanda into the car and put him to bed while they were waiting for an ambulance that took a while to arrive. “He was still breathing when we arrived at home. His father and I were crying like children. It was even worse when the paramedics arrived and certified him dead,” he said. She said Ayanda had not been a child who had liked partying but on the fateful day he had gone out with his friends. ) Sgt. Mmako Mophiring, police spokesperson, said four arrests had been made.