The last place missing Eastern Cape UCT student Uyinene Mrwetyana, 19, was seen was Clareinch Post Office in Claremont, Western Cape. She took a taxi there to pick up a parcel.
The campaign to find Uyinene, who has been missing since Saturday, had reached as far as Zambia, a private investigator said.
Noel Pratten of Noel Pratten Investigations said he and his team had spoken to her friends at UCT, checked her bank records, tried to trace her cellphone calls, checked street CCTV cameras, and ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) system from all over the Western Cape.
He said: “We can’t give more details on that. The post office was the last confirmed sighting.”
On Wednesday her Beacon Bay parents, Noma and Philip Mrwetyana, flew to Cape Town to meet UCT vice-chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Mphakeng.
Noma is the director of student affairs at Rhodes University, and Philip owns an engineering firm in Berea.
A distraught Noma could only say: “To whoever has my daughter, please just return her to me. I have been having sleepless nights.”
The first-year BA film and media studies student went missing on Saturday at 1.30pm. She was earlier seen leaving her home at Roscommon House student residence in Claremont.
Western Cape police said the 1.7m tall student was wearing baggy brown corduroy pants and had a black handbag.
Friend and fellow student Lubabalo Zote described Uyinene as a soft-spoken fashionista and music lover.
Pratten said his team and police were working hard on the case. “People are leaving work at 2am, despite having families. They are doing an absolutely fantastic job.”
He warned against reckless and fake social media postings, such as one which cruelly claimed a body had been found.
On Wednesday at 2pm, 70 East Londoners gathered on Nahoon Beach
Where is my daughter?
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The last place missing Eastern Cape UCT student Uyinene Mrwetyana, 19, was seen was Clareinch Post Office in Claremont, Western Cape. She took a taxi there to pick up a parcel.
The campaign to find Uyinene, who has been missing since Saturday, had reached as far as Zambia, a private investigator said.
Noel Pratten of Noel Pratten Investigations said he and his team had spoken to her friends at UCT, checked her bank records, tried to trace her cellphone calls, checked street CCTV cameras, and ANPR (automatic number plate recognition) system from all over the Western Cape.
He said: “We can’t give more details on that. The post office was the last confirmed sighting.”
On Wednesday her Beacon Bay parents, Noma and Philip Mrwetyana, flew to Cape Town to meet UCT vice-chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Mphakeng.
Noma is the director of student affairs at Rhodes University, and Philip owns an engineering firm in Berea.
A distraught Noma could only say: “To whoever has my daughter, please just return her to me. I have been having sleepless nights.”
The first-year BA film and media studies student went missing on Saturday at 1.30pm. She was earlier seen leaving her home at Roscommon House student residence in Claremont.
Western Cape police said the 1.7m tall student was wearing baggy brown corduroy pants and had a black handbag.
Friend and fellow student Lubabalo Zote described Uyinene as a soft-spoken fashionista and music lover.
Pratten said his team and police were working hard on the case. “People are leaving work at 2am, despite having families. They are doing an absolutely fantastic job.”
He warned against reckless and fake social media postings, such as one which cruelly claimed a body had been found.
On Wednesday at 2pm, 70 East Londoners gathered on Nahoon Beach
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