Family might seek help of Sangomas
POLICE investigations into the mysterious disappearance of a Carletonville businesswoman have stalled pending DNA results on a charred body found in an open veld.
Maureen Gege, 47, disappeared on the night of December 21 last year.
The family suspects that the burnt woman's body could be that of Gege.
At the time of her disappearance Gege, a mother of two, was driving back home after watching a soccer game in her brother's house.
She was driving a gold BMW 1-series. The car has also never been seen since.
Eight days after Gege's disappearance, police discovered a body of a badly burnt woman on the N12 between Johannesburg and Carletonville.
Police took DNA samples on the body and Gege's older son Lubabalo to be tested at the Roodepoort DNA lab test centre.
Yesterday Carletonville police spokeswoman Sergeant Busi Menoe said without DNA results there was nothing much police could do.
"Those DNA results are the only way forward as far as the investigations are concerned," she said.
Menoe said DNA tests could take up to a year to be completed.
"Up until such results are available all we can do is wait," she said.
But Menoe said police were still on the lookout for Gege and her German sedan.
The couple's son Lubabalo had earlier blamed his father, Chumani, for failing to help search for his mother.
He said the couple, who lived in Carletonville Extension 9, had not been on speaking terms.
This, coupled with scores of protection orders against each other, had led to a bitter divorce.
Gege's twin brother Morris Mathiba said: "Maureen retired as a schoolteacher after 18 years.
"She invested all her retirement package on her family business, but her husband tried to kick her out of their house."
He said as a result his sister took out a protection order against her husband and started sleeping in a separate bedroom.
Chumani had also obtained a protection order against his wife for alleged assault.
He had earlier told Sowetan that he was not bothered by her disappearance.
"Maureen and I have been separated for two years now.
"Why should I search for another man's woman," Chumani said earlier this year.
Troubled by the police's slow investigation, Mathiba said the family was considering the services of a sangoma to help shed light on the whereabouts of his twin sister.
"We can't deal with the fact of not knowing what has happened to her anymore," Mathiba said.
DNA tests stall probe
Family might seek help of Sangomas
POLICE investigations into the mysterious disappearance of a Carletonville businesswoman have stalled pending DNA results on a charred body found in an open veld.
Maureen Gege, 47, disappeared on the night of December 21 last year.
The family suspects that the burnt woman's body could be that of Gege.
At the time of her disappearance Gege, a mother of two, was driving back home after watching a soccer game in her brother's house.
She was driving a gold BMW 1-series. The car has also never been seen since.
Eight days after Gege's disappearance, police discovered a body of a badly burnt woman on the N12 between Johannesburg and Carletonville.
Police took DNA samples on the body and Gege's older son Lubabalo to be tested at the Roodepoort DNA lab test centre.
Yesterday Carletonville police spokeswoman Sergeant Busi Menoe said without DNA results there was nothing much police could do.
"Those DNA results are the only way forward as far as the investigations are concerned," she said.
Menoe said DNA tests could take up to a year to be completed.
"Up until such results are available all we can do is wait," she said.
But Menoe said police were still on the lookout for Gege and her German sedan.
The couple's son Lubabalo had earlier blamed his father, Chumani, for failing to help search for his mother.
He said the couple, who lived in Carletonville Extension 9, had not been on speaking terms.
This, coupled with scores of protection orders against each other, had led to a bitter divorce.
Gege's twin brother Morris Mathiba said: "Maureen retired as a schoolteacher after 18 years.
"She invested all her retirement package on her family business, but her husband tried to kick her out of their house."
He said as a result his sister took out a protection order against her husband and started sleeping in a separate bedroom.
Chumani had also obtained a protection order against his wife for alleged assault.
He had earlier told Sowetan that he was not bothered by her disappearance.
"Maureen and I have been separated for two years now.
"Why should I search for another man's woman," Chumani said earlier this year.
Troubled by the police's slow investigation, Mathiba said the family was considering the services of a sangoma to help shed light on the whereabouts of his twin sister.
"We can't deal with the fact of not knowing what has happened to her anymore," Mathiba said.
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