Six-year-old Alexia Nyamadzawo, who has made news in South Africa and Zimbabwe after she was strangled and dumped in a Durban sugar cane field allegedly by her mother, was finally buried in Kwekwe on Sunday.

The family described 31st May when Alexia was murdered as a dark day.

As painful as it is, we take comfort knowing that we have been blessed with gifts of great unforgettable moments, with Alexia, in her short well lived life," said one grieving family member.

According to another family member who presented the slain minor's eulogy, Alexia was born 19 July 2013 at Victoria Medclinic in Tongaat, North Coast, Kwazulu Natal and would have turned 7 in July this year.

It is alleged that the mother concocted an elaborate lie that Alexia had been kidnapped by an unknown man from the backseat of her car while she slowed down for a speed bump on Glendale Road near Shakaskraal, Durban on May 31.