Months after burying his father, Siyabonga Mnisi’s father must now bury his son

JOHANNESBURG - The father of five-year-old Siyabonga Mnisi, who died on Wednesday in a suspected food contamination incident, says he just buried his father and now has to bury his son.  

Siyabonga died on Wednesday after allegedly consuming chips purchased from a spaza shop just around the corner from his Diepkloof home in Soweto.  

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A candlelight vigil will be held in honour of the grade R pupil on Saturday afternoon ahead of his funeral on Sunday.  

Just three months ago, Samuel Mnisi buried his father, and now he will bury his five-year-old son.  

He said his life had been turned upside down.  

“I don’t understand what's happening to my life. Three months back I buried my father, and now it’s my son, so I don’t understand what’s happening in my life.”  

Siyabonga’s mother, Thandeka Ndilamane, said he had aspirations of being a doctor.  

“He would say, ‘Mama, I will buy you, my father and my grandmother a big house, and I’m going to be a doctor’.”

Siyabonga’s funeral will be held in Soweto on Sunday morning.