Devasted mom continues search for missing son

A devastated mother continues to search for her son to whom she last spoke while she was overseas in July.

“I can’t take it anymore,” the 29-year-old man’s mother Bettie Bezuidenhout told Rekord.

The devastated mother last spoke to her son Zacharias Arnoldus Stephanus Smit on 28 July, between 16:00 and 17:00 while in England visiting her daughter.

“He called me asking if he could come back and live with us,” Bezuidenhout said.

She said she turned him down because he and her husband “had a fight and he broke some of our windows and belongings”.

Smit’s sister then allegedly sent him an address of a shelter in Pretoria North.

Bezuidenhout said when she returned to South Africa last month, she’d looked for her son without success.

“I was told he was spotted near the R506 road, towards Onderstepoort,” she said.

Bezuidenhout said she had thus far checked all the hospitals and mortuaries she knew in Pretoria.

Bezuidenhout told the police her son was wearing a T-shirt, denim pants and takkies and sported blonde/light brown hair at the time of his disappearance.

He is 1,75m tall, weighs between 68-70 kg, has a tongue piercing and a green lizard tattoo on his upper left arm.

He has scars on his right forearm, a cavity-decay in his front teeth and wears a beard.

Those with information about Smit’s whereabouts were urged to call Lieutenant-Colonel Jenners on 012-381-6000/6082.

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