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Gugulethu Mukanga

Patient Sibanda, Chronicle Reporter
A BULAWAYO family is appealing for help to locate a five-year-old girl who went missing at Renkini Bus Terminus last Friday after she left home with her two siblings, both aged 10.

Gugulethu Mukanga, of Nguboyenja suburb, left home on Friday morning with her twin siblings and has never be seen again.

The girl’s grandfather Ephraim Mukanga, 61, told The Chronicle that her granddaughter’s siblings searched for her for hours and decided to come back home as their efforts were in vain.

“Gugu left home wearing a black dress and she was barefooted. She is light in complexion. Only her siblings returned home on Friday afternoon and told me that Gugu had gone missing. They got home at around 4PM as they said they were searching for their little sister who went missing after they entered the Renkini public toilet,” Mukanga.

“They said they never saw her when they came out of the toilet. They told me that the three of them entered the toilet.”

Gugulethu’s grandmother Edith Dewa, 42, said they reported the matter to the police.

“I’m worried how she is surviving the cold weather of the past days since she left home without a jersey,” said Dewa.

Anyone with information on the missing girl can contact the family on 0712265111 or 0778281186 or notify the nearest police station.

Meanwhile, two other Bulawayo families are also looking for their relatives who went missing in October and November this year.

A mental patient, Lungisani Moyo, 36, of Pumula North suburb did not return after he left  home on November 15 going to the shops.

He was last seen wearing a white T-Shirt, pair of blue jean trousers and white takkies. He is light in complexion and stands at about 1,5 metres.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Lungisani can contact his sister, Mpilo Mlilo, on 0715341758.

The family of Shupikai Takawira, 41, of Ilanda suburb has also reported her missing.

Joseph Matanhire, 51, said he was having sleepless nights since his wife Takawira left to visit her relatives in Bulawayo’s Luveve and Mzilikazi suburbs on October 22, but was never seen again.

“She left home on October 22, on a Thursday morning and we expected her to come back on Friday. I went on to call her relatives and they told me that she left to return home. I’ve gone to hospitals and mortuaries to look for her but couldn’t find her,” said Matanhire.

“I’ve eight children with her. I’m worried about her being missing. It’s difficult for me to survive without her by my side.”