The Mpumalanga police have opened an inquest docket after a two-year-old toddler drowned in a stream after following his mother who was on her way to the shops nearby.
According to the grief-stricken mother Thapiseng Mnisi, her son Sibusiso Mnisi was asleep when she decided to walk to the shop by crossing a stream at Msholozi village in Mbombela. Unbeknown to her, Sibusiso had woken up not long after she left the house and seeing her at a distance, decided to follow her.
When she returned she saw people gathered at the stream. She was shocked when she saw the child she had left in the house lying motionless after having been retrieved from the stream.
