Police are investigating a case of attempted murder and the possibility of adding further charges against an unknown mother whose newborn baby boy was discovered buried in a Methodist Church building site in the Dikeni village of Cala. Rev Zandisile Mngcita of Methodist Church circuit 324 visited the newborn at Indwe hospital on Monday and indicated he was open to adopting the child if his family could not be traced.
When Methodist Church steward Mbuyiselo Manyonga set off to find the source of the muffled cries he heard while preparing for Sunday service, he thought there was a cat in distress. However, what he found buried in a shallow grave inside an incomplete building next to the church was not someone’s pet, but a newborn baby boy.