A 28 year old Zambian national resident was found dead in the Czech Republic in Vltava river on November 6, 2012 in the City of Roztoky.
The deceased has been identified as Malitela Sikwebele.
According to a police report obtained from Prague Police Department in Czech Republic, the body of Mr. Sikwebele was found floating in Vltava River with a bag contained some rocks strapped on his body at the time of discovery of the remains.
In a statement released to ZANIS in Lusaka today, First Secretary for Press and Public Relations at the Germany Embassy, Yvonne Shibemba, indicated that the body was identified yesterday on November 13th by close friends to the deceased who are resident in the Czech Republic.
Ms. Shibemba said police however, suspects that the deceased may have committed suicide given the circumstances in which the body was found.
She said the Investigations on the matter are still ongoing.
Ms. Shibemba explained that the deceased is believed to have gone to Czech Republic in 2005 on a privately sourced scholarship to further his studies in the field of medicine.
She said family members to the deceased have since been informed and further instructions are being awaited from them.
ZANIS
Deepest Condolences….
Suicide? Why?
i would not put suicide as the most likely cause. The person sourced his own scholarship to study medicine. Knowing how it takes to reach that far, the man could not have been foolish to take his life. Life in a foreign country is very hard, we africans tend to face the silent war of racism in one way or the other. It may even be possible for fellow student to kill thier friend and make it appear as though the man commited suicide. Embasies, lets learn to protect zambians by insisting that thorough investigations are done
I agree with you.. Room mates must be interviewed.
You mean the man weighed himself down with rocks and drowned? I smell homicide
Suicide?! Yeah, sure! Like the guy who shot himself in the head 5 times?
Its definitely not suicide
Investigations won,t even go far.Not with Zambian embassies.You are day dreaming.Unless other embassies.
The youngman was just killed by rasists.I”ve been to these European countries.Indeed there are a lot of rasists in europe especially eastern part.Why should police lie that he commited suicide?Ha ha ha Zambians work up and develop yo country otherwise foreigners won’t develop zambia.Russia taught me how to love my country even if some people say why did u come to Zambia?Let us be partrotic as Zambians because living in the foreign land is bad indeed.Sometime rasists used to throw us Bananas and call us Monkeys.
Whats wrong with Zambia to further his studies…oh wait no one cares about africa not even african leades…bwaaah
Its sad reading,waste of human resource,we look forward to the final report.
when all goes west jst return home, RIP.
THIS IS NOT SUICIDE AND IT CAN NOT BE, WHO EVER IS SAYING IT IS SUICIDE IS A FOOL. ZAMBIANS WHY ARE THEY SCARED OF WHITES? WE ARE NOT IN 4TH CENTURY P-L-E-A-S-E.
IF YOU KILL ONE AMERICAN THAT IS A REASON ENOUGH FOR WAR TO START IFWE BAIPAYA UMUNTU WESU AT SUICIDE RUBBISH…. WE NEED INDEPENDENT COUNTRY TO DO A POSTMORTEM AND GIVE US ALL RESULTS WHICH WE HAVE TO ACT UPON. AS ZAMBIANS LETS DEMAND PROPER ACTION ON THIS MATTER.
Very sad conclusion by police. Which police force is investigating this? They don’t want to do the hard job of forensics. That police officer who has offered this explanation must be fired.
The guy was killed. There is rascism in Eastern Europe I don’t even know why Zanbia sends its people to Czech, Russia for studies. We need to stop.
Send Kambwili there.
Detailed investigations should be made.Those of us who have lived in various foreign lands, for study and work, for more than 12 years now, know what it feels like and the daily challenges we face. There are a number of possibilities which could have led to the man’s death.Was he in touch with other Zambians there?
It’s not just in eastern Europe where people get called monkeys. Even in good old England there are rabid racists.
Foregn Affairs Minister Lubinda told us to register our particulars with our embassies. We did not agree. Condolences
So if you register you won’t die…?
Why so quick to point a finger at innocent suicide, just let them investigate, Zambian abroad are not in that habit committing suicide and besides, why would he go the river to commit suicide, somebody could have spotted him tying the bag of stones to his body, mutherfackers there must played him. Those eastern europe countries are full of hate against blacks especially that their women prefer us to them!
aaah the @ Narrant the difference between the uk and russian is that you can actually take the racist to court and win ….best example watch an English soccer game and watch how fans ,players and refs are seriously reprimanded if there is a hint of racism now in eastern Europe half the stadium is making monkey noisy and throwing banana’s onto the pitch and nothing is done .
good recent examples england u21 and czech republic u21 where any english player of colour was sent off , and czech fans were taunting him with monkey sounds
Racists killed him epela, sad indeed some of these white trash awe mwe, ne fyalo fine ku czech there are not even real whites ma rejects, these white rejects are worse when it comes to racism, mwilatubepa ati suicide, tis racism kwapwa! Rip so sad.
There are many of us who studied in Eastern Europe. We know that this man was killed. Those are places where you can be killed for black. You can be killed for having a white girl friend. You can be killed for dollars or ponds. The way we survived was walking in 2s or 3s. Never alone and avoinding parties with locals. We attended many African parties. Graduated and came back home. This is no suicide. Sorry for the family. A few people were killed during our time. A Zambian was killed in Minsky, Russia about July 1983.
This story doesn’t add up.How do you commit suicide and strap a rock onto your self so as to sink the body? A racist murderer did this and wanted to hide their crime.Keep off eastern europe its a den of close minded racists.My warmest regards to the victim’s family.R.I.P.
My friend Edward Bwalya was killed by racists in Russia in 1990
RIP Squib. His Kenyan friend died a similar death at the beginning of 2007. The body was found in the same river Vltava after missing for about one to two months. The Czechs said the same usual thing that the dead was drunk and fell in the river even when circumstances were contrary. Is this suicide really? For Squib’s friend, the Kenyan embassy officials travelled from Germany to Czech Republic for investigations, I doubt if Zambian officials can have such stamina.
Very sad reading. I also strongly suspect homicide and not a suicide. I feel for his family and relatives that were probably looking up to him. Only God knows how we survive this side of the hemisphere. We really need your prayers, from the moment we set foot on the plane to cross over distant lands and seas and enter the white man’s country.
I am not Zambian but I live in Czech republic. I have met this boy several times and he is a good kid. I don’t believe an African will kill himself after getting so far. To my understanding he should be done with medicine next year.
He was killed for sure! And the racist Czech Police and Government will not do anything about an African. After all they want all of us out of their useless country so they will rather protect their citizens.
N.B- Its not the first time an African has been killed in CZECH REPUBLIC!!! And nothing was done about it.
DO NOT VISIT CZECH REPUBLIC!!
YES PLS, rather choose different country
He was always smiling guy, but last month he acted strange.
see you on the otherside bro
I met this fellow last summer during my holiday in Prague. We had some wonderful time together. Sad that he had to leave this way. RIP