THE body of a South African National Defence Force (SANDF) finance clerk, who was apparently murdered in Burundi last week, arrived at the Waterkloof Air Force base late on Tuesday. The body of Elvis Azwefawi Makhado (42) was received with full military honours, after being offloaded from an aircraft in a coffin. Makhado, a civilian member of a 701-strong SANDF contingent deployed as a protection force for returning exiled politicians in Burundi last year, was found strangled at an abandoned house north of Burundi’s capital Bujumbura last Friday. The circumstances surrounding his death are still not known. Two investigations, one legal, the other military, had been launched in Burundi to unravel the mystery. – AFP