Akhani Mashaba’s family have made contact with Linden Police Station and he will soon be reunited with them.
The paper had previously written an article on Mashaba, who is believed to be mentally challenged.
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He was found by a concerned community member at a local petrol station who then took him to the police station.
The Linden Police’s Constable Takalani Matumba said, at the time he was brought to them all Mashaba could tell them was his name and that he resided at number 11.
After the article was shared on various social media groups by community members invested in Mashaba’s safe return to his family, his grandmother saw it and made contact with the station on the morning of 19 September.
His grandmother explained the two live in Alexandra and she had opened a missing person case with Alexandra Police Station.
Mashaba, who had been placed at Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital, will now be reunited with his grandmother after days of not knowing where he was.
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