FAMILY STILL SEARCHING FOR WOMAN WHO DISAPPEARED TWENTY YEARS AGO

Blessing Ticha Karubwa

A FAMILY has been searching for a woman, who disappeared as a child, for TWENTY years now.

The woman’s relatives, who are from Insiza District, have not given up hope that they will find her alive, even after all these years.

The relatives are appealing to members of the public for help in locating Sindisiwe Ndlovu.

She is believed to be around 28 or 29 years-old now.

The family believes Sindisiwe could still be living somewhere in Harare and may also have two sisters from her mother’s side.

Sindisiwe was born in Norton before moving to rural Insiza and then Harare.

Sindisiwe is the daughter of Godfrey Ndlovu of the Tshili family in Vokola, Insiza District.

Ndlovu is currently based in South Africa while relatives in Zimbabwe continue the emotional search.

Family spokesperson, Sithembinkosi Nyoni, said the family lost contact with Sindisiwe during the mid-2000s when communication in rural areas was still difficult and mobile phones were not common.

“We are not looking for her because of any dispute or problem.

“We simply want to reconnect with our daughter and relative.

“The whole family has been searching for her for years,” said Nyoni.

According to the family, Sindisiwe stayed briefly in Vokola around 2006 and 2007 after her parents separated.

During that period, she lived with her father’s relatives and her stepmother, identified only as NaNkosi.

She later moved to Swinge area in Insiza where she stayed with her aunt, Sitshengisiwe Ndlovu, and attended Siwazi Primary School, for a short time.

She then returned to Harare after her late mother, Catherine, ordered her to come back.

“There were no quarrels or misunderstandings. She was just a child then and eventually returned to Harare,” Nyoni said.

The death of her mother later broke the contact between Sindisiwe and her family.

In what the family believes could be a major breakthrough, NaNkosi recently revealed that years later she unexpectedly met a woman she recognised as Sindisiwe, while working at the City of Harare offices near Africa Unity Square.

However, before they could exchange contact details, NaNkosi left the workplace and contact was lost again.

Anyone with information regarding Sindisiwe Ndlovu’s whereabouts is being urged to contact her aunt, Sitshengisiwe Ndlovu, on +263 71 593 1503.