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Urgent plea: Help Woodlands family find missing teenager

The 14-year-old boy was last seen on Tuesday morning leaving for Clairwood Secondary School. His mother is concerned for his safety.

THE family of a missing 14-year-old boy is pleading for help to locate Mnqobi Shandu of Doddington Crescent in Woodlands who was last seen going to Clairwood Secondary School on February 4.

His mother Zamokuhle Shandu said when she came back from work she noticed that her son was not at home.

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“When I came back home on Tuesday night, I noticed that the door and burglar gate were wide open. His school uniform and school bag were in the room. I assumed that he had come back home. I asked other family members if they had seen him, but they said they had no knowledge of his whereabouts, and then I started panicking,” said Shandu.

She said a similar incident had happened in the past, where her son decided to sleep at a friend’s house.

“He is not reachable on his phone and his friend has said that he hasn’t seen him,” she said.

Anyone with information that might assist the family find Mnqobi, can contact his mother on 073 549 1059.

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Andile Sithole

He has been covering a variety of news beats for over 10 years. As a journalist working for community newspapers, he has covered politics, court reporting, municipal stories, crime, and news features over the years. Andile is also a multimedia journalist for Southlands Sun. He started his career in journalism as a freelance reporter in 2005 while studying Communication Science at UNISA. Prior to joining Caxton Newspapers, he worked for both community and commercial newspapers in Durban, where he won the Journalist of the Year Award in 2020 and 2021.

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