ANOTHER UNESWA STUDENT HANGS HIMSELF

MANZINI - Yet another UNESWA student is said to have committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree.

University of Eswatini-Luyengo Campus students are still coming to grips with the death of their colleague, Mancoba Mbhamali, after he committed suicide last Saturday evening by a forest near his home at Ndzevane. Mancoba was said to have been registered with the Faculty of Agriculture, where he was pursuing his final-year degree in Bachelor of Agricultural Biosystems Engineering. He was found hanging from the tree near a dam at Ndzevane by a group of children, who were walking past the area. According to Mancoba’s heartbroken mother, Siphiwe, her son never recovered from the death of his father in 2018, such that he started experiencing challenges with his mental health last year.

Disoriented

She expressed that she received a phone call from the institution’s counsellor, after he started becoming disoriented such that his studies suffered. Siphiwe said she had to fetch her son from the university, and he was admitted to a hospital where a medical practioner informed her that he suffered from stress. However, it was the events that led to Mbhamali committing suicide on Saturday evening that shook her to the core, where she relayed that as a sickly person, she called her son last Wednesday to come home. When he eventually arrived at his parental home on Friday evening, Siphiwe observed that her son had lost weight.

When she questioned him about it, he never responded. Later, Siphiwe said she heard a knock on her bedroom door and when she called out, her son informed her that he had come to bid her farewell. “When I asked him why he was saying good bye to me in the middle of the night, he did not respond and instead, left for his bedroom. After a few minutes, I heard a loud knock coming from his bedroom,” she recalled. Siphiwe narrated that when she went to his bedroom and opened the door, she saw him standing on a chair, with a rope tied around his neck. She recalled being shocked, and pleaded with him to stop. When his brothers heard the commotion, they rushed to his room and after seeing their brother with a rope around his neck; they proceeded to lift him from the chair and loosened the rope around his neck.

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