A 48 year old South African man has allegedly committed suicide in a hotel room in Kabwe District of Central Province for unknown reasons.
Central Province Commissioner of Police, Chola Katanga, has confirmed the incident to ZANIS in an interview and identified the deceased as Goosen Martin, a holder of passport number A05939131.
Mr Katanga said his body was discovered by one of the house keepers hanging on an in built wardrobe in room 216 around 15:40 hours yesterday.
He said Tuskers Hotel Manager Daniel Mweetwa, of 51 Ghana Avenue in Kabwe District reported the matter to the police.
“Received a report from Daniel Mweetwa aged 51 of 51 Ghana Avenue, Kabwe, a Hotel Manager by occupation to the effect that around 15: 40 hours of 21/12/20 his house keeper discovered the body of a white South African male person hanging on an in built wardrobe in room number 216,” he said.
Mr Katanga said police visited the scene and observed that the body was completely naked with cuts on his right arm and a hand bag rope was used to hang himself.
He explained that after a thorough investigation was done on his belongings, a note declaring himself to have committed suicide and a whatsapp line to inform his relatives was found.
“A thorough check on his belongings was done and found a note declaring himself to have committed suicide and also a passport bearing his details as M/Goosen Martin aged 48 a South African by Nationality, the holder of Passport A05939131 and left a whatsapp line to inform his relatives,” Mr Katanga said.
The body of the decased has sonce been deposited in the mortuary waiting for possible identification of the body and postmortem.
And Mr Katanga said the son to the deceased called from South Africa to find out about the father’s death after he was told about his demise by the fiancé only identified as Susan.
He said the son revealed that the deceased has not been in contact with the family and relatives in South Africa for the past one.
He stated that the deceased son indicated that the family was unable to make arrangements to travel due to COVID-19 but that further discussions will be done through Susan.
Too bad ??.. condolences to his family
Let us please learn to seek help and speak about the problems we are facing. I see a lot of angry upnd diasporans here. Deep down I know they are not angry at me or our government. It is a manifestation of their anger at themselves for the problems they are facing in their horrid lives. Before you know it, they will teach a brick wall and the likes of tarino and spaka might attempt to jump off the London eye. Seek help
YEAH THE SHOCK OF COMING TO ZAMBIA AND THE FILTH WAS JUST TOO MUCH TO BEAR
SO SAD
Pls don’t manga me but bamunna aba bali pa photo is so handsome mweh!Flawless clean skin.
kkkkkkkkkkkk awe awe let me pass
Mable Chishimba ifya bupuba awe , the issue here is death
Mable Chishimba hmmm this kind of behavior isn’t good for a lady. Learn to keep some of these things to yourself.
Charity Katanga just entered the conversation ??
Mable Chishimba lets meet. Iam his brother and I am not married. Im Joe Katanga from Masaiti now staying in the capital
A cousin to a leader in the opposition joins PF, it is news on ZNBC TV, meanwhile when Edgar Lungu lost a bye election in his home village in Petauke last year, ZNBC did not consider it as news.
A handbag??? Naked??
Sounds there was a lady in room. Unfortunately, Katanga is depending on the dead man’s own words.
Condolences to the family
He made sure of his death by going to commit suicide in a a country without any medical assistance. What a clever guy.
Which hotel? Sad
Sounds suspicious to me. There should be more to this story.
Too bad ?? about that… Heartfelt condolences ?
Suicide mission.. My condolences to de family
Bad and immature reportage by LT about the unfortunate death of this South African. Eish!, the public outside Zambia will wonder what to make out of phrases of this incidence.
Are there ‘real detectives’ in the Zambian police force with forensic expertise on suspected crime scene? Well maybe there is but instead of what is coming out from police basing on the dead man’s note, the police should have expected foul play and sealed the hotel to interview everyone and calling for information from witnesses who could have seen the man before fate befell him and not treated it as a personal probably psychological challenge!
Why too many suicide cases this year
He saw the drainages! ?
It was so foolish of him to come and dumb his own carcass in a foreign land. Couldn’t he have waited until he was close to his relatives sure!
Our infamous ZP has concluded their investigation based on the information found on the dead man which could have also been craftly designed and placed there by the girl friend. The idea of someone coming to commit suicide all the way from SA does not seem to make sense. If he was a temporary resident, obviously the wise suicide stupidity would have been to collapse at OT
He should have gone back home to die there