Online Reporter
Mthokozisi Ncube
MONTHS after the heartbreaking disappearance of four-month-old Alice Ncube, a dark cloud still hangs heavily over her family’s home in Bulawayo.
With every sunrise, hope battles despair, and with every sunset, the pain grows deeper.
The family is now offering a US$5,000 reward to anyone who can provide information on her whereabouts.
Alice vanished on December 29 last year, snatched from her family through what began as a simple promise of help.
Her mother, Tracey Ngwenya, had been drawn in by a WhatsApp group offering free baby clothes.
What should have been a blessing turned into a living nightmare.
Her grandmother, Smoly Khanye, speaks with a trembling voice, her eyes heavy with tears that never seem to dry.
“We wake up every morning praying for news,” she said.
“But the phone stays silent. The silence is torture.
“It feels like our hearts are being crushed slowly, day by day.”
Tracey had responded to a message on the Idale Labomama WhatsApp group, where a woman calling herself MaNdlovu, using 0713339949 to chat, from Cowdray Park claimed she wanted to give away baby clothes.
Plans kept changing. From a promised home delivery, Tracey was told to meet at the corner of Harare Road and Cecil Avenue in Parklands.
Then she was told the clothes would be sent by kombi drivers.
Mathew Masinge