Nemaranzhe family desperate for news about their daughter

For the Nemaranzhe family from Duthuni village outside Thohoyandou, life has become very difficult since the disappearance of their daughter, Rolivhuwa Nemaranzhe (30), three months ago.

They have done everything one can think of to try and find her, but to no avail. Rolivhuwa went missing on 23 December 2020. At the time of her disappearance, Rolivhuwa lived in Gauteng where she was employed at a liquor outlet in Midrand.

What makes it worse for the Nemaranzhe family is that painful and misleading information about Rolivhuwa’s disappearance is being posted on a fake Facebook account, under the name of a certain Elma Mutavhatsindi. “Elma” apparently posted “RIP Rolivhuwa” and told the family that their daughter had been killed and that her body thrown into a dam in the Kempton Park area. The family went to the dam, but Rolivhuwa’s body was not found.

According to Rolivhuwa’s sister Thina, the family is deeply upset by the posts on Facebook. She added that watching her sister's two-year-old daughter miss her mother was painful. “The family has not had peaceful sleep since Rolivhuwa's disappearance,” she said. “This is a most traumatic and trying time for the family.”

She thanked Pastor Violet Liremi and Awelani Makongoza, who visited them with prayers, goods, and money for Rolivhuwa’s daughter. “We have lost a lot and we have gone through the worst. But we have not lost hope as we have put our hope in God, and the prayers and support from the community have become our pillar of strength,” she said.

“We don’t know what happened to Rolivhuwa. These people on Facebook seem to know where she is. We beg them to assist us with her whereabouts.”

Thina also asked people to stop posting fake information on Facebook, “Please come forward if you have any information to share with the family, because it is painful to read about this on social media.”

Date:27 March 2021

By: Maanda Bele

Maanda  Bele, born and raised in Nzhelele Siloam, studied journalism at the Tshwane University of Technology.

He is passionate about current news and international affairs.

He worked as part of the Zoutnet team as an intern in 2017.

He is currently a freelance journalist specialising in news from the Vhembe district.

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