{"id":299726,"date":"2024-05-06T07:14:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T05:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/bloemnewsexpress\/still-no-possible-clues-regarding-two-young-missing-women-from-bloemfontein-20240506\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T15:40:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:40:02","slug":"still-no-possible-clues-regarding-two-young-missing-women-from-bloemfontein-20240506","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/bloemnewsexpress\/still-no-possible-clues-regarding-two-young-missing-women-from-bloemfontein-20240506\/","title":{"rendered":"Still no possible clues regarding two young missing women from Bloemfontein"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The frantic search continues for two young women from Bloemfontein who were reported missing in October and November last year. Seven months on and the police have their hands full trying to put pieces of the puzzle together to trace Lerato Masiu (23) and Lesego Mamello Motaung (22). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There has still been no sight of them, amid the ongoing search and the clarion call for the public to help in the investigations tracing them. Posters bearing their photos have been circulated even on social media platforms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brig. Motantsi Makhele, spokesperson for the Free State police, said there were no new developments regarding the \u201cmysterious\u201d disappearances of Masiu and Motaung. Both were reported as missing by their respective families, days apart. Their disappearances remain unexplainable, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"embed image\" style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-imageid=\"f0629caa-572c-4fc0-a71c-ef09984a1a47\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/8642\/b6c0419ea8884e78920e96d0a12621f2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/bloemnewsexpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/131d96892b624861971a906a91684d18.jpg\" style=\"max-width:620px;\"><\/figure><p><\/p>\n<p>Mamello Motaung<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Motaung was reported missing on 30 October, and Masiu on 16 November. According to the police, information received from Masiu\u2019s parent claimed that, before her disappearance, she had come home with an unknown African male who claimed he was a police officer investigating an incident on Facebook, involving Masiu. 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