One of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s nephews was found dead in a wardrobe at a South African university, reports said on Sunday.
Twenty-year-old Takudzwa Wesley Goronga reportedly went missing at Monash University in Johannesburg two weeks ago.
He was later found dead in his wardrobe at the university campus.
He was buried in the Zimbabwean town of Marondera on Saturday.
President Mugabe told mourners Goronga’s death had hit his family hard.
Doing drugs
“You (Goronga) have set us a real, real problem, not just a psychological problem but a burden we are yet to share,” he was quoted saying by State media.
“We have yet to establish what happened, what happened to you. What God proposes, he disposes.”
The Zimbabwean leader, who runs a scholarship that sends hundreds of students to South African universities every year, urged parents with children studying abroad to closely monitor them.
“Some children sent to study outside the country return home with some negative habits such as doing drugs,” he said.
Last month, another 30-year-old Zimbabwean student was found dead Vaal University of Technology also in South Africa.
The cause of her death is yet to be established.
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