Cape Town - After his wife, Asavela, passed away in February, Thina Mvango is hoping his five-year-old son – the only family he has left – returns home safely after going missing earlier this month.
Nido Mandivile Mvango disappeared from his home in Khayelitsha on September 5, and police have appealed to the public to come forward with any information about his whereabouts.
Mvango said he had returned home from his regular Saturday jog at 8am and was looking forward to preparing breakfast for his son. But little Nido was nowhere to be found. “I arrived home and the door was open. I started to panic because he was not home. I asked around the neighbourhood where he was because he left without eating.”
He said his neighbour told him that Nido had left with other children to play near a wetland in Green Point, Khayelitsha.
Wandisile Sipasi, 35, said he saw Nido waiting for a taxi with a woman.
“I was the last person to see him with the woman and could not help.
“I thought she was family of the boy because he was not crying.”
Police spokesman Captain FC van Wyk confirmed that Nido was still missing and police were still investigating.
Cape Argus