Family pleads to community to help find missing daughter

Just a few weeks before Christmas Day, the Makgatho family is bracing itself for a stressful Christmas following the disappearance of its daughter, of Katlego Pearl Makgatho.

According to her sister and family spokesperson, Portia Makgatho, Katlego was last seen about two weeks ago, on November 29 after she had knocked off from work.

“It’s really painful, we don’t even know where to start searching. We have reported the matter to the police and they are already helping us find her, but as each day passes by, we feel drained and slowly losing hope,” said the sister when speaking to this paper.

An intense search is already on and the community is once again urged to lend a helping hand in finding Katlego.

“Any help at this stage will be highly appreciated. We really need everyone’s help to bring her home. We are aware as a family that people cannot just be investigators overnight, but all we are asking is for the entire Tembisa community and its surrounding areas to be on the look-out and have their eyes and ears opened. Any information is vital at this point,” appealed Portia.

At the time of her disappearance, Katlego was residing with her boyfriend at Mqantsha Section.

“She was living at her boyfriend’s place with their two children. And what is very painful is that the children are very small and still need the care of their mother. We have already been to hospitals but found nothing. We are praying that she is still alive where ever she is. And if she is kidnapped, we would like to plead with her kidnappers to please let her come home to her children. Her first-born child is only three and her second child is just a year old,” said Portia.

Police spokesperson Capt Manyadza Ralidzhivha also made a plea to the community to play their role in helping out the family and police locate Katlego.

This year alone, over 20 women and children in Tembisa have gone missing, with some already found murdered while some were never found at all.

For more information or to help, please contact Portia on 071 752 6348 or the police on 08600 10111.