
SASOLBURG. – This comes after his family reported him missing. According to the Missing Adult Alert, van Niekerk was supposed to go to Ruimsig with his mother on Sunday where he would start a new job on Monday.
Messages and photos of Ryno were shared on social media and his family searched for him in hospitals. It is alleged that he was last seen in the industrial area of Sasolburg where he spent the night with a friend. However, they allegedly got into an argument, after which Ryno walked away. van Niekerk’s body was found on Sunday by a member of the K9 Search and Rescue Unit from Sasolburg who was searching for two other missing men at the Vaal Dam on Sunday. The K9 memeber saw something floating on the dam and on closer inspection saw that it was a sleeping bag is what is zipped. When he opened the sleeping bag, he found Ryno’s body with a stab wound in his chest. There were also several blue spots all over his body.



