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Khaya Magadla fell into an open manhole while playing with friends in Dlamini, Soweto, on 12 June 2022.. Picture: Supplied.

Khaya magadla

Khaya Magadla's family relieved his body has finally been found

By Veronica Mokhoali

His body was found at the Eldorado Park Cemetery wastewater plant on Saturday following a painstaking search operation.

  • EMS looking into a manhole in Klipspruit to search for six-year-old Khaya Magadla who fell in a manhole in Soweto. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN.

    Complex pipeline network and high water levels complicated Khaya Magadla search

    Rescue workers retrieved Magadla’s body in a waste pipeline near the Eldorado Park Cemetery on Saturday - a devastating end to a painstaking operation that gripped the nation.

    2 days ago
  • Picture: Khaya Magadla

    We hope Khaya Magadla's family will finally find closure - City of Joburg

    The 6-year-old who fell into a manhole while playing with friends in Soweto last month, was found in one of the three pipelines leading out of the sewer split chamber on Sunday.

    2 days ago
  • Picture: Khaya Magadla

    The body of 6-year-old Khaya Magadla has been found

    Joburg Emergency Services confirmed that the boy's body was discovered in a split chamber near the Eldorado Park Cemetery on Saturday.

    3 days ago
  • EMS crews at a manhole in Klipspruit West to search for six-year-old Khaya Magadla who fell into a manhole in Soweto. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    CoJ 'working around the clock' to find Khaya Magadla:' Mayor Phalatse

    The six-year-old went missing almost three weeks ago, after allegedly falling into an open manhole while playing with friends near his Dlamini home in Soweto.

    5 days ago
  • EMS at a manhole in Klipspruit West to search for six-year-old Khaya Magadla who fell into a manhole in Soweto. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN

    Khaya Magadla’s family saddened that search for him taking so long - grandfather

    It's been 18 days since anyone last saw the little boy who is alleged to have fallen into a manhole, while playing with his friends at a park in Dlamini, Soweto, three Sundays ago.

    5 days ago
  • EMS crews at a manhole in Klipspruit West to search for six-year-old Khaya Magadla who fell into a manhole in Soweto. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    Reactionary servicing of sewage networks prolonging Khaya Magadla search: expert

    Public infrastructure expert Gundo Maswime has told Eyewitness News most municipalities do not have an adequate register of its assets, including its water networks.

    8 days ago
  • Image copyright: icefront/123rf.com

    Water to later be restored to parts of Soweto as Khaya Magadla search continues

    Water was cut to some areas after the utility diverted some of the water flow along its pipelines to assist teams who have been searching for a 6-year-old who fell into an uncovered manhole in Dlamini, Soweto.

    9 days ago
  • Khaya Magadla fell into an open manhole while playing with friends .in Dlamini, Soweto, on 12 June 2022.. Picture: Supplied.

    Joburg EMS on Khaya Magadla: We'll know by end of Saturday what the next step is

    Saturday marks thirteen days since the six-year-old fell into an open manhole while playing with friends in Dlamini, Soweto.

    10 days ago
  • EMS crews at a manhole in Klipspruit West to search for six-year-old Khaya Magadla who fell into a manhole in Soweto. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    Khaya Magadla: Rescue team to scale down as search reaches final stretch

    It’s been nearly two weeks of searching for Khaya Magadla in a resource-intensive operation involving high-level technology, heavy-duty machinery, water technicians – as well rescuers from the police, and the EMS Aquatic Rescue Unit.

    11 days ago
  • EMS crews at a manhole in Klipspruit West to search for six-year-old Khaya Magadla who fell into a manhole in Soweto. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    Joburg EMS: No plans to call off search for Khaya Magadla (6) yet

    Joburg EMS said that it was exploring all possible avenues to find the body of the six-year-old who fell into a manhole while playing with friends in Dlamini, Soweto.

    11 days ago
  • FILE: Joburg EMS Spokesperson Robert Mulaudzi said if the rescue personnel walking through the pipelines fail to locate the missing child they’ll have to hand the operation over to Joburg water. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN.

    Camera boat, Joburg Water play their part in search of Khaya Magadla

    Rescue teams continued to search the four-kilometre stretch of the sewer pipeline along Fuchia road in Klipsruit west, which leads up to the split chamber at the Olifantsvlei water treatment plant.

    12 days ago
  • Rescuers at the manhole where six-year-old Khaya Mgadla fell in. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News.

    Rescuers vow to keep looking for Khaya Magadla as search hits critical stage

    Thursday marks 11 days since Khaya Magadla fell into an open manhole at a park in Dlamini, Soweto, and there's still no sign of the missing six-year-old.

    12 days ago
  • FILE: Excavators have also been used to identify hidden manholes and technology in the form of an unmanned boat fitted with cameras has been deployed into the pipelines. Picture: Supplied.

    EMS officials eliminate any doubt in the search for Khaya Magadla

    Rescue teams have worked through at least five manholes on Wednesday in a desperate search for the six-year-old who fell into a manhole at a park near his Dlamini home ten days ago. 

    13 days ago
  • A relative of the missing Khaya Magadla, Derrick Khumalo, kneels down to pray near the manhole on Fuchia Street in Klipspruit West on 22 June 2022. Picture: Masechaba Sefularo/EWN.

    Disappointment as search team finds a rock instead of Khaya Magadla

    The search operation has now entered its tenth day and there’s still no sign of the seven-year-old who slipped into an open manhole while playing with friends.

    13 days ago
  • EMS crews at a manhole in Klipspruit West to search for six-year-old Khaya Magadla who fell into a manhole in Soweto. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    Water in parts of Soweto may be shut off to help in search for Khaya Magadla

    After nine days, there still has been no sign of the six-year-old boy who fell down a manhole while playing with friends in Soweto.

    13 days ago
  • Residents of Dlamini, in Soweto, gathered outside the home of missing Khaya Magadla were his peers sang happy birthday on what would have been his sixth birthday. Picture: Masechaba Sefularo/EWN.

    9 days after falling in manhole, Khaya Magadla’s family still hope to find body

    Although he has had to make the difficult admission that his son is no longer alive, Kholikile Magadla has made an impassioned plea to rescue personnel and technicians searching for his six-year-old son not to give up.

    14 days ago
  • The little boy’s family huddled together and wept as they joined residents who also prayed for little boy to be found. Picture: Masechaba Sefularo/EWN.

    Soweto residents pray for the best on missing Khaya Magadla's birthday

    On the eighth day of the search and recovery operation, officials again returned empty-handed after Magadla fell into a manhole at a local park on Sunday, 12 June.

    15 days ago
  • The manhole in Soweto where six-year-old Khaya Magadla fell has been covered. Photo: Abigail Javier/Eyewitnes News

    'Happy birthday, boy': Search for Khaya Magadla enters day 8

    The boys father said he remained hopeful that his son’s body would be found.

    15 days ago
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