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South Africa: Mother’s harrowing wait for son (11) who went missing after being kicked off bus

South Africa: Mother’s harrowing wait for son (11) who went missing after being kicked off bus

Africa Links 24 with Suné Payne and Siyabonga Goni
Published on 2024-07-23 19:35:55

“I was so grateful. I have never had an experience where people do not stop calling me. Many of them were praying for me and I believed that whatever the time is, my child [would] sleep [at] home,” said Siba Mbasana.

Her 11-year-old son, Lifalethu, went missing after he had to make his own way home from Simon’s Town School in Cape Town’s Deep South to Khayelitsha after a driver kicked him off a bus because he had lost his ticket. Alerts went out on social media, with communities…

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