Screams were heard as the 14-year-old was murdered by Jerry Vusi Richardson, a member of Winnie Mandela's team of bodyguards.
[9] Cebekhulu had himself, before the 1991 trial, been tortured and kidnapped to Zambia, where he was detained for almost three years, at the behest of the ANC, before moving to the United Kingdom.
With regard to the actual murder of Seipei, the Commission found Mandela "negligent in that she failed to act responsibly in taking the necessary action required to avert his death".
[3] In February 1989, Abu Asvat, a prominent Soweto doctor,[11] who had examined Seipei after his abduction, was shot dead at his medical practice.
[14] In a 2017 documentary, former Soweto police officer Henk Heslinga alleged that former safety minister Sydney Mufamadi had instructed him to re-open the investigation into the death of Seipei, for the purpose of charging Winnie Mandela with murder.
[18] Commentator Max du Preez called the decision by television station eNCA to broadcast the documentary without context in the week prior to Madikizela-Mandela's funeral a "serious mistake", and he described the film as making "outrageous claims",[19] while former TRC commissioner Dumisa Ntsebeza questioned the motives of the documentary maker.