According to a police source, Yamkela Mtini and her two-year-old sister were left in the care of a neighbour.
|||Cape Town - Door-to-door searches for a nine-year-old Nyanga girl who went missing on Tuesday have so far had no success.
Yamkela Mtini, a Grade 2 pupil at Khanya Primary School in Mitchells Plain, was last seen playing with her friends at her home at No 5636 Samora Machel informal settlement.
Nyanga police, who were only told of the girl’s disappearance on Thursday, said neighbours and friends assisted.
“We search the whole area up until midnight on Thursday and again on Friday but could find no new leads,” local police said on Friday.
Captain FC Van Wyk said she had been wearing three-quarter blue denim jeans, a Puma pink T-shirt and brown sandals.
“The mother of the child (Nomanesi Mtini) was at work at the time she went missing.”
According to a police source, Yamkela and her two-year-old sister were left in the care of a neighbour.
Police say it is not the first time Yamkela has disappeared, but previously she was soon found.
Neighbours, who saw her just before she disappeared, could also shed little light on what happened to her.
Yamkela’s mother, Noma-seni Mtini, said on Friday that she did not know where to begin looking.
“My daughter only moved to Cape Town from the Eastern Cape last year and she is still unfamiliar with the city. There is no family in the area where she could have gone. We truly don’t know what to think, but my husband and I are suffering immensely.”
Nyanga police suspect that Yamkela may have disconnected their DStv when she took the card out of the decoder and ran away because she was afraid she would get into trouble with her parents.
l Anyone with information can contact the Nyanga police at 021 380 3374, Constable Flekisi at 084 716 1903 or Crime Stop at 08600 10111. - Weekend Argus