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Three missing constables, 24-year-old Constable Cebekhulu Linda (male), 30-year-old Constable Keamogetswe Buys (female) and 20-year-old Constable Boipelo Senoge (female).
Free State Premier, Maqueen Letsoha-Mathae has described the day the bodies of the three constables were retrieved from the Hennops River in Gauteng, and the night of the announcement by the National police commissioner Fannie Masemola as agonizing.
An emotional Mathae says the devastation was felt in the province.
She says that night became a reality that was never expected.
Free State Premier Maqueen Letsoha-Mathae breaks down after delivering her tribute to the 3 police officers.
She is being comforted by the Deputy Minister of Police Polly Boshielo who has also been inconsolable. #sabcnews pic.twitter.com/CyQVBz6Qfe— Chriselda Zozi Lewis (Babes Wendaba) (@Chriseldalewis) May 6, 2025
Mathae however, has thanked the families of the three constables, Keamogetswe Buys, Cebekhulu Linda and Boipelo Senoge for opening their homes and worked with the provincial government.
Mathae says the pain the families are going through is indescribable but they will overcome it with time.
“And at that particular moment, we held on to the hope that the bodies found were not that of three police officers but rather of other people. You can, therefore, imagine the devastation we felt when the National Commissioner General Fannie Masemola confirmed that the bodies from the river were indeed of our three police officers. My heart sank because I could not believe what the three families going through. The death of a child is every parent’s worse nightmare and unfortunately, for Senoge, Linda an Buys families their nightmare had now become a reality,” says Mathae.
