Centane police have opened a case of a missing person, following the disappearance of 14-year-old Milisa Mboto on Tuesday in a village in the area.
According to Butterworth police cluster spokesperson Captain Jackson Manatha, the youngster had gone to fetch water at a communal tap in Nxokwana village, where he stays, at about 3pm.
“He never returned home,” said Manatha.
Milisa is a Grade 6 pupil at Mpentse Senior Primary.
His distraught mother, Khuthazwa Matiti, said he had been wearing brown shorts and a lemon-coloured T-shirt with grey and white stripes.
She said he had driven the family car to the tap, but the car was found abandoned there.
Nobody in the village had seen or heard of him, she said...