Khaya magadla
Khaya Magadla's family relieved his body has finally been found
His body was found at the Eldorado Park Cemetery wastewater plant on Saturday following a painstaking search operation.
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.
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.
Joburg Emergency Services confirmed that the boy's body was discovered in a split chamber near the Eldorado Park Cemetery on Saturday.
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.
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.
Public infrastructure expert Gundo Maswime has told Eyewitness News most municipalities do not have an adequate register of its assets, including its water networks.
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.
Saturday marks thirteen days since the six-year-old fell into an open manhole while playing with friends in Dlamini, Soweto.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The boys father said he remained hopeful that his son’s body would be found.