{"id":365232,"date":"2026-08-05T23:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T23:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/365232\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T23:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T23:37:14","slug":"police-investigate-deaths-of-two-gauteng-teenagers-in-sabie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/365232\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate deaths of two Gauteng teenagers in Sabie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bodies of two teenagers from Gauteng were discovered in a well-known lodge in Sabie on Monday, August 3.<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear how Grade 11 pupil Cameron Waldeck-Cooks (17) and former pupil Ethan Coetzee (19) died.<\/p>\n<p>The Mpumalanga police spokesperson, Lieutenant Colonel Mavela Masondo, confirmed the deaths. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have opened an inquest docket for investigation. A post-mortem will be conducted to establish the cause of death,\u201d Masondo said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"516\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-05-193836-1-516x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-906017\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Waldeck-Cooks was a scholar at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stithian.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St Stithians Girls\u2019 College<\/a> in Sandton, having joined the school in 2015 as a Grade R learner. <\/p>\n<p>According to a death notice issued by the school, she was an accomplished sportswoman who excelled in rowing and netball.<\/p>\n<p>The college said she would be remembered for her kindness, warmth, and determination. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-05-193924-443x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-906018\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe approached life with resilience, quiet strength, and a genuine care for those around her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coetzee was a former pupil at St Stithians Boys\u2019 College, where he started in 2013 as a Grade R learner and completed his matric in 2025. <\/p>\n<p>He was described as a young man of strength, commitment, and humility who represented the college\u2019s first team in rugby.<\/p>\n<p>The guest lodge, of which Lowvelder knows the name, could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizen.co.za\/lowvelder\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lowvelder<\/a> will keep its readers updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"789\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/766072354_913340961826697_6210023563303409405_n.jpg\" alt=\"Ethan Coetzee.\" class=\"wp-image-906014\"\/>Ethan Coetzee. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"789\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/763895441_2118457785747541_1928297199943128466_n.jpg\" alt=\"Cameron Waldeck-Cooks.\" class=\"wp-image-906013\"\/>Cameron Waldeck-Cooks .<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAt Caxton, every story is written by humans. We use AI only to perform quality checks &#8211; never to generate the news. Happy reading!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bodies of two teenagers from Gauteng were discovered in a well-known lodge in Sabie on Monday, August&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[52],"tags":[302,9303,27054,3263,20820,20821,96,3753,54540,90442,89863,131],"class_list":["post-365232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-africa","tag-breaking-news","tag-community-news","tag-crime-and-safety","tag-local-news","tag-nelspruit","tag-nelspruit-news-headlines","tag-news","tag-news-headlines","tag-news-in-mbombela","tag-news-in-white-river","tag-newsin-nelspruit","tag-south-africa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/117045536288053189","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}