Algoa FM News
A Mthatha initiate who has been missing for 21 days has been found, alive, after he stumbled hundreds of kilometres to his uncle’s home in Machibini village near Komani.
Twenty-one-year-old Ntsika Mdladla went missing on November 29 after he allegedly ran away from his traditional nurse.
Ever since then his family has been frantically searching for him in morgues, hospitals, other initiation camps, and forests.
Children’s rights activist Petros Majola, the director of Khula Development Projects, visited the family on Wednesday where he saw Madlala in the flesh after he had arrived at the home the night before.
Majola also spoke to Algoa FM News saying that Mdladla had left the camp after having a fallout with his traditional nurse and was too scared to go home.
“We are grateful that he has been found alive- this story is unbelievable.”
“He walked barefoot and ate food that had been thrown out by road users, at certain points, he used cardboard boxes as a shelter.”
Majola says his Mdladla’s elderly uncle, Stoto Nkanunu, thought he was seeing a ghost when he knocked on his door on Tuesday evening.
In a video posted by Majola on the Khula EC with Majola page, Nkanunu says although the initiate seems weak he is well.
“I had just had supper when he knocked, I saw it was him.
Nkanunu had to wait for him to speak and switched on the light in order to identify him positively.
The video continues with a sitting Mdladla who says: “I am Ntsika and my home is in Mthatha and here [Machibini].
“I am here, and I have been found alive," he said
“I was on my way to my uncle’s home,” he added before reciting his clan names.
