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The frantic search continues for two young women from Bloemfontein who were reported missing in October and November last year. Seven months on and the police have their hands full trying to put pieces of the puzzle together to trace Lerato Masiu (23) and Lesego Mamello Motaung (22).
There has still been no sight of them, amid the ongoing search and the clarion call for the public to help in the investigations tracing them. Posters bearing their photos have been circulated even on social media platforms.
Brig. Motantsi Makhele, spokesperson for the Free State police, said there were no new developments regarding the “mysterious” disappearances of Masiu and Motaung. Both were reported as missing by their respective families, days apart. Their disappearances remain unexplainable, too.
Mamello Motaung
Motaung was reported missing on 30 October, and Masiu on 16 November. According to the police, information received from Masiu’s parent claimed that, before her disappearance, she had come home with an unknown African male who claimed he was a police officer investigating an incident on Facebook, involving Masiu. She never returned home after leaving with the bogus police officer at about 12:30, raising suspicions of human trafficking.
There were conflicting reports regarding Motaung’s disappearance. The police said according to information received from her aunt, she (Motaung), had left her home in Uitsig, saying she was going to work at a food chain restaurant in Zastron Street, Westdene. However, one of Motaung’s colleagues alleged that she had reported being sick with ulcers.
