Prayers for missing daughter last seen with cash heist suspect

A MOTHER believes that a suspected cash-in-transit heist kingpin is behind the disappearance of her daughter.

Speaking of her pain ahead of the first anniversary since Linda Mtati went missing, a distraught Gloria Sibuye said she still hopes for her daughter’s safe return.

Everytime she goes to the Johannesburg High Court where her daughter’s suspected killer and alleged cashin-transit heist kingpin Thabo Happy Mosia appears for her kidnapping and murder, she prays he will tell her what happened to her then 24-yearold child.

Despite Mosia having been charged with murder, Sibuye believes her daughter is alive.

Mosia used to be one of the most wanted man in Gauteng for his involvement in heists. He was in hiding until he was nabbed five months after Matati went missing from a party they both attended. He allegedly offered Matati, who worked for SBV, a lift from the party hoping to get information on cash-in-transit movements, Sibuye believes.

In 2011, Mosia was arrested in Eldorado Park for four cash-in transit heists between March 2005 and August 2006 and a string of other crimes.

A month before his arrest, the Asset Forfeiture Unit seized Mosia’s assets, including two houses, one valued at R1.2 millio. He had also bought his mother – a social grant recipient – a house worth R120 000 for cash.

It is unclear what happened to the robbery cases. National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Phindi Mjonondwana said: “We realised that cases opened against him just disappeared.”

For the one-year anniversary, Sibuye and her family will hold a prayer session.