The below video is that of the last public moments of the Zimbabwean who was killed inside a South African Hospital.
These were the last moments of Tipiwa Chipika's life. The mentally ill Zimbabwean was found dead psychiatric ward at the Stellenbosch Provincial Hospital, from suspected strangulation. More in tomorrow's @WeekendArgus @iol *Audio in Shona* pic.twitter.com/0hpvaOMOJG
— Soyiso Maliti (@soyiso_maliti) March 23, 2018
The 33 year old Tapiwa Chipika, went missing for 3 days around Cape Town, was found near Stellenbosch and taken to Stellenbosch Provincial Hospital for treatment and medication, where he later died.
He was a horse groomer, who had lived in South Africa for six years, and was supposed to be receiving treatment for schizophrenia and an eating disorder, which friends claim manifested in December.
The Weekend And Argus reports that Chipika was admitted to the hospital on Sunday, March 11 – the day the brothers were supposed to drive back to Harare.
His brother says he had been informed by hospital staff that his brother would be kept overnight for treatment and observation at the hospital’s psychiatric ward and discharged the following day so that he could return to Zimbabwe.
Doctors told the brother that Chipika was mentally unfit to travel and would need to be hospitalised longer.
By on Wednesday, the brother discovered he had died from what doctors said were “natural causes,” what was later exposed as false when family and friends inspected the body and found it had strangulation marks.
Family friend Priscilla Chidzonga told the Argus, “the nurses were actually surprised when we said Tapiwa was murdered. They were thinking we were just going to look at him and that’s it. But we checked everything. The room was a mess; you could tell something violent happened in that ward.”
– READ MORE IN THE WEEKEND AND ARGUS.