HE RUSHED home as soon as he got the call. He needed to get home urgently, his brother Vusi had said. But when Mandla Mhlanga arrived home, police officers were on the scene and wouldn’t let him in.
He forced his way through the barrier, terrified something awful had happened, and came upon a ghastly scene, the lifeless bodies of his wife, Pearl (32), and their three children - Quanisha (8), Quirino (4) and their seven-month-old baby, Quain - lined up in the passage of their home. Police suspect Pearl killed herself and her children after an argument with Mandla.
The devastated father of three, who hasn’t been to the Reyno Ridge home in eMalahleni since, cuts a lonely figure when we meet him at his parents’ home in Ackerville,…
