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'Frantic' mum looks for girl
08/10/2007 14:49 - (SA)
Verashni Pillay
Empangeni - The hunt is on for a missing 10-year-old girl, who disappeared on Wednesday from boarding school in a desperate search for her mother.
Volunteers are scouring the Warrick Triangle region in KwaZulu-Natal after little Londiwe Penelope Nzimande went missing from the school in Empangeni on October 3.
"She was trying to get back to her mother who works as a domestic worker," Missing Children spokesperson, Pieter Boshoff, told News24 on Monday.
Londiwe goes to a boarding school in Empangeni, while her mother works for a family in Berea, Durban.
While her exact reasons for leaving are not known, it is believed the little girl was missing her mother and went in search of her.
'Frantic'
The mother was informed by the school that her daughter was missing. "She is frantic," said Boshoff. "Her employers drove her to all the places the girl may have been, searching for her."
Volunteers traced Londiwe to Warrick Triangle. After questioning several people in the area, Missing Children spoke to a taxi driver who gave her a lift. He said he dropped her off in an area called Kwashelleni, near Kwa Mashu.
"She was trying to get to her 'big auntie's house' who lives in that area but the taxi driver dropped her off at a stop too soon," said Boshoff.
People in the Kwashelleni area claim to have seen the little girl on Friday, wearing a pink and white stripped dress and floral takkies, and carrying a blue school satchel with her.
"She may try and go back to Empangeni or keep trying to find her aunty or mother," said Boshoff.
Anyone with information can call Missing Children SA 072 MISSING ( 072 64 774 64) or Crime Stop 08600 10111.
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