Ramuisi family looking for grandfather

The Ramuisi family in Shanzha are frantically looking for their 94-year-old grandfather. He went missing on 18 September.

According to the information made available by Const Tsietsi Lamola of the Limpopo Police’s communication services, Mr Tshamano Johannes Ramuisi told his family that he was going to look for cattle at the nearby grazing camp. "When he hadn't returned home by the following morning, the family decided to report the matter to the police," said Lamola.

The missing old man's son, Edson Ramuisi, said that the family had been shocked and dejected after they noticed that Ramuisi wasn't coming back. "We looked everywhere and enquired from all our relatives to find out if he hadn't visited, but we couldn't get any indication of what had happened to him," said Edson.

He explained that the family had also received information from two boys, who said that they had seen the old man on the day that he reportedly went missing. The two friends were on their way to go fishing at a local stream, when they saw Ramuisi in the vicinity of the Shanzha and Ha-Manyuwa demarcation line. "They told us that they were not sure where else he might have gone from that area," a worried Edson said.

Ramuisi was last seen wearing  green work-suit trousers, a dark red T-shirt with white stripes, a khaki jacket, and All Star running shoes.

Anyone with information can contact Edson at 076 219 3969 or the investigating officer, W/O Muofhe, on 072 676 6335.

News - Date: 04 October 2013

Tshifhiwa Mukwevho

Tshifhiwa Given Mukwevho was born in 1984 in Madombidzha village, not far from Louis Trichardt in the Limpopo Province. After submitting articles for roughly a year for Limpopo Mirror's youth supplement, Makoya, he started writing for the main newspaper. He is a prolific writer who published his first book, titled A Traumatic Revenge in 2011. It focusses on life on the street and how to survive amidst poverty. His second book titled The Violent Gestures of Life was published in 2014.

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