Vusi Oldman Mahlangu
Eastern Cape police said on Wednesday that they will only open a missing persons case for student activist Vusi Oldman Mahlangu after 48 hours.
Colonel Mzukisi Fatyela said that the incident – in which Mahlangu is believed to have been taken captive in Mthatha – was reported to Madera police on Tuesday.
Fatyela said that individuals who reported the matter were told to return on Wednesday to open a case.
Mahlangu‚ a member of the Black Students Movement (BSM) and spokesperson for #OutsourcingMustFall‚ was last seen leaving a friend’s house in Mthatha at around 10am on Tuesday.
In a Twitter post by BSM‚ Mahlangu was said to the heading to a meeting with outsourced workers at Walter Sisulu University‚ but he never arrived.
The last message Mahlangu sent‚ at 4.30pm‚ read: “I am either kidnapped or arrested and I am bleeding …In a dark place at Mthatha‚ my phone is about to die.”
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