Family fears the worst over missing son
A Soshanguve mother lives in fear after her son, 24, went missing from a hospital queue when she went to buy food for him.
A Soshanguve Block T mother is devastated by her son’s, 24, disappearance on the afternoon of 2 July 2019.
Oupa Malope who suffered from “mental illness”, was with his mother Maria Selekane in the queue at George Mukhari hospital when temporarily left to get food for the both of them.
When she returned, and could not locate her Tshwane University of Technology fourth level education student son, witnesses had told her he had left to look for her.
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She said he was last seen outside the hospital boarding a taxi to Mabopane station.
“It was shocking to find that my son had disappeared into thin air,” said Selekane.
She told Rekord that her had suspected that Malope was showing signs of mental illness “as he was starting to act out of his personality”.
“We as a family did not notice any signs before he admitted that he was using drugs. He said he was on ntash, nyaope and marijuana, but we still believe it is witchcraft because he did not have signs of someone who used drugs,” explained his mother.
She said towards the end of May, Malope disappeared for a night but returned the following day.
“He had left the house without informing me,” said Nthabiseng, his elder sister.
“He told me that he slept in a bush.”
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A friend of his girlfriend Precious Tshamango has told the family someone had seen Malope in Block XX last Thursday.
“A friend of mine told me that he last saw him wandering around at Block XX, behaving in an abnormal way as though he had lost his mind,” she said.
The family opened a missing person’s case at the Rietgat police station.
Police spokesperson Steven Maluleka said: “The police are still investigating his case. The investigating officer liaised with the mother on Monday. We will keep in touch should we discover anything.”
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