Grieving Mother to Finally Bury Daughter to Rest After KZN Government Helps Repatriate Student From Philipines

• A heartbroken mother who lost her daughter in the Phillipines will finally get to bury her
• Snegugu was a final-year medical student when she unexpectedly died at an airport in the Philippines
• The KZN government has stepped up and is assiting to repatriate Snegugu's body after her mother made a impassioned plea for help

DURBAN - A grieving mother for KwaZulu-Natal will finally have the opportunity to lay her beloved daughter to rest.

After making an despreate plea in a video, the KZN government stepped up to help get Lindiwe Menyi's daughter home.

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According to Menyi, Snegugu was a final-year medical student in the Philippines. Her daughter was studying to become a neurosurgeon.

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Snegugu unexpectedly died overseas on Monday 10 July while at the airport heading home, IOL reported.

Menyi pleaded for help with getting Snegugu's body home so she could give her daughter a dignified burial. The problem was that the costs of transporting the body from the Phillipines were astronomically high and Menyi could not afford it.

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Apon hearing Menyi's plight, the KZN government endevoured to play its part and help bring Snegugu's body home.

The office of the KwaZulu-Natal Premier announched that it was in the processes of repartiating the body with the Department of International Relations, EWN reporetd.

Meanwhile Menyi has expresses nothing but gratitude for the government. The grieving mother said she was grateful she could finnaly give her daughter the burial she deserved.

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Earlier, Briefly News reported that the family of the woman abandoned by paramedics in KwaZulu-Natal are out for justice, and they have turned to the South African Human Right Commission (SAHRC) to achieve it.

Thembeka Sikhosana's ordeal captured South African's hearts after it was revealed that two paramedics refused to transport her to a hospital, abandoning a sickly Sikhosana on the side of the road, IOL reported.

Sikhosana, who was born with a hole in her heart, had to be driven to a nearby clinic by a neighbour, after which she was transferred to Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital in Umlazi.

Source: Briefly News