SA SOCIAL WORKER SEEKS HELP IN IDENTIFYING MYSTERY WOMAN

MBABANE – Have you lost your mother, sister or grandmother? A woman who is estimated to be in her late 40s was found in Ermelo and she calls herself Thoko Mkhwanazi.

The people who are keeping her in South Africa suspect she is not from that country.
This is because the South African police are said to have run her fingerprints in their data and she could not be recognised.
As such, her keepers, who are currently taking care of her, decided to call the Swazi police to help locate her relatives, as there are strong suspicions that she may be from Swaziland. It is suspected that Mkhwanazi has been in Ermelo for the past 20 years without any form of identification, though her origins could not be ascertained.

According to Social Worker Bongiwe Lekhuleni, who is facilitating the search for Mkhwanazi’s relatives, they have asked her several times where she was from and her answer was unsatisfactory.
When assessing her, they suspect that she was mentally disturbed as her conversations were incoherent.

She was admitted to one of the hospitals in Ermelo and she did not have any form of identification with her. Mkhwanazi is currently under the care of social workers in a victim support centre and she informed the people who stay with her that she has a sister.
When she was probed further about her sister, she informed them that she did not remember her name.

She failed to give the social welfare officers information pertaining to her parents as well.
“Mkhwanazi came to our attention last year in July and since then we have been trying to locate her family with no luck.

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