Harare - A 20-year-old Zimbabwean man found dead in a wardrobe at Monash University in Johannesburg was the nephew of President Robert Mugabe, it emerged on Sunday.
Information technology student Takudzwa Wesley Goronga was reported missing around two weeks ago.
He was later found dead inside his wardrobe at the campus.
The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation said Mugabe had addressed mourners at Goronga's funeral on Saturday and called the student's death “a mystery,” a Sapa correspondent reported.
The Zimbabwean president, who has two sons and a daughter, said: “Some children sent to study outside the country return home with some negative habits such as doing drugs.”
Police were still investigating the cause of Goronga's death.
The student was reportedly raised by an aunt and an uncle in Marondera, central Zimbabwe, following the death of his mother 10
years ago. - Sapa