HOUT BAY - Grade 11 pupil Amina Swano, who was last seen going to a music festival not far from her home, has been found dead.
Friends, family and schoolmates of 17-year-old Amina Swano came to pay their last respects. They last saw her alive when she was leaving for a One Love Rasta Party on Valentine's Day.
Now weeks later, a decomposing body was found stuffed inside a box near a block of flats. For two weeks, her loved ones continued to search with dwindling hope of finding her alive.
And now DNA tests have confirmed that the body belonged to Amina.
Her mother, Salama said at least there is clarity now.
“At first a sigh of relief. Now we don’t have to look anymore. I don’t have to sit and wonder if she is in the morgue or not. It’s a big sigh of relief for me to accept now that it was her. I am still hurting a lot.”
Swano’s life orientation teacher, Tasneeem Marcus, described her as a lovely pupil who was never disrespectful or rude.
“She was a learner who loved to read, if you go into her home, you will see her shelf full of books. I told them to join the library from Grade 8 and she was one of the learners who listened. So from our Grade 11 learners she was one of the intelligent girls.”
She said Swano did well at school would have been a top performer in matric.
Three people known to the Swano family have been arrested and charged with murder.