Searching for missing officers intensifies

Cebekhulu and Senoge had had a relationship for a while and were planning to get married, he said.

“We started calling hospitals and police stations to find out if there had been an accident. It has been incredibly difficult for our family. I can’t sleep and it’s hard to eat.”

He suspects that their disappearance is possible with their work for Operation Vala Umgodi.

“It is clear because we cannot trace the car. There is no proof of a hijacking or that they have been dumped somewhere. But I remain hopeful that they will come back alive,” he said.

Buys’ husband, Lwazi Dabi, shares the suspicions of Senoge’s father.

Dabi said that although there were no threats for his wife’s life that he was aware: “She always told me that her job was stressful and dangerous”.

“She would share the kind of cases that she treated.

He also said it could have been that they were hijacked because the vehicle in which they travel is known as a hijacking target.

‘[But] If it was a hijacking, we would probably have found them now, “he said.

Dabi saw his wife for the last time when Cebekhulu and Senoge Haar picked up at around 9.45 pm on Wednesday.

He later went to bed and when he woke up around 4 o’clock, he saw that purchases had sent him an SMS at 10.30 pm asking if he was already sleeping.

Dabi said one of his wife’s colleagues visited him and told him that the police suspected that the trio had been kidnapped.

“I try to stay positive, but nothing makes sense,” he said. “I keep repeating some of the conversations that we just had to understand what could have happened to her.”

The police have appointed researchers from Gauteng and the Free State to look for the missing trio. They have also set up a 24-hour operational center to coordinate search efforts and have offered an R350,000 reward to anyone who has information about the three.

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