A MAN has been arrested in connection with the murder of Happy Sindane.
“The 58-year-old suspect was arrested at his home in KwaMhlanga on Tuesday and charged with murder,” Mpumalanga police spokesman Colonel Leonard Hlathi said on Tuesday.
Sindane was found dead in Tweefontein, next to KwaMhlanga, on Monday.
Police said Sindane appeared to have been stoned to death.
Sindane rose to prominence in 2003 when he alleged he was a white boy who had been kidnapped by black people.
After a four-month inquiry to establish his identity the Bronkhorstspruit Children’s Court found in September 2003 Sindane’s real name was Abbey Mziyaye and he was the son of a black domestic worker, Rina Mzayiya.
The court found his father was probably a white man, Henry Nick, who employed Mzayiya in 1984. He was born in that year.
The whereabouts of both were unknown.
In 2004 Sindane was injured by a minibus and car while he was lying in the road outside the Sizanani Trust Village place of safety in Bronkhorstspruit, where he lived.
It was not known why he was lying in the road.
Later that year he appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court for malicious damage to property. He was arrested in Marabastad, Pretoria, after he allegedly broke the windows of a taxi with stones.
In 2005 the charges were dropped after the taxi owner told the court he had repaired the damage himself and did not wish to proceed with the case.
Sindane was awarded a settlement payout by the Dulux paint manufacturing company which used his image in an advertisement “Any colour you can think of”, which he said was made without his permission.
Hlathi would not state whether the police were looking for more suspects.
The man was due to appear in the KwaMhlanga Magistrate’s Court yesterday to face a charge of murder.
One arrest in Happy Sindane mystery killing
“The 58-year-old suspect was arrested at his home in KwaMhlanga on Tuesday and charged with murder,” Mpumalanga police spokesman Colonel Leonard Hlathi said on Tuesday.
Sindane was found dead in Tweefontein, next to KwaMhlanga, on Monday.
Police said Sindane appeared to have been stoned to death.
Sindane rose to prominence in 2003 when he alleged he was a white boy who had been kidnapped by black people.
After a four-month inquiry to establish his identity the Bronkhorstspruit Children’s Court found in September 2003 Sindane’s real name was Abbey Mziyaye and he was the son of a black domestic worker, Rina Mzayiya.
The court found his father was probably a white man, Henry Nick, who employed Mzayiya in 1984. He was born in that year.
The whereabouts of both were unknown.
In 2004 Sindane was injured by a minibus and car while he was lying in the road outside the Sizanani Trust Village place of safety in Bronkhorstspruit, where he lived.
It was not known why he was lying in the road.
Later that year he appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court for malicious damage to property. He was arrested in Marabastad, Pretoria, after he allegedly broke the windows of a taxi with stones.
In 2005 the charges were dropped after the taxi owner told the court he had repaired the damage himself and did not wish to proceed with the case.
Sindane was awarded a settlement payout by the Dulux paint manufacturing company which used his image in an advertisement “Any colour you can think of”, which he said was made without his permission.
Hlathi would not state whether the police were looking for more suspects.
The man was due to appear in the KwaMhlanga Magistrate’s Court yesterday to face a charge of murder.
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