A Pretoria mother said she didn’t know how she would find the strength to bury her son after he was killed leaving a pub in Mountain View over the weekend.
Charlotte Seaborne, Calvin Seaborne’s mother, sobbed at the thought of never seeing her son again. She is determined to learn what happened to her son.
“Was he hurt, did he die immediately or did he suffer? I am all cried out. He was only 21 years old,” she said.
Seaborne’s son was out with coworkers when a fight broke out, and he attempted to break it up.
“I got a call at 5.05am asking me to come out because my son was assaulted and was cold. I didn’t initially realise what was meant.
“Only on my way there, did I realise that my child is dead,” she said.
On Saturday, a detective from Sunnyside police told Seaborne that the person who had assaulted her son had turned himself in and was arrested.
“When I got to the scene, I started screaming and shouting when I saw him on the ground, covered in a body bag,” she said.
Seaborne said he had foam coming out of his mouth. “I sat with his body and held his leg while we waited for the police to arrive and for his body to be collected.
“I am never going to see my son again. This morning I realised I won’t be able to greet him or ask him how he slept,” she sobbed.
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Seaborne stated that she wanted justice for his death. “I know it won’t bring him back, but the guy who killed him must go sit in jail,” she said.
Lindi Marais, a close family friend, described Seaborne’s son as a gentle giant with a golden heart.
“He was always smiling and had the naughtiest laugh. His mother was his everything after his father had passed away in a motorcycle accident 10 years ago,” she said.
Marais said that he assumed the position of man of the home at a young age and was fiercely protective of his mother and sister. “His death leaves a large void,” she remarked.
In a similar incident, a video of a man, apparently Wernich Botha, viciously assaulting two men in a parking lot at a shopping centre in Klerksdorp, North West, went viral last week.
Botha came before the Klerksdorp Magistrate’s Court on accusations of attempted murder and assault with the purpose of causing grievous bodily harm, according to North West provincial police spokesperson Colonel Adéle Myburgh. He was released on R2 000 bond and is scheduled to appear in court on October 19.
Police have yet to comment on Seaborne’s case.
