Below is How To Find A Missing Person In South Africa
If someone close to you is missing, you should report it to the police as soon as you know they are missing. You do not need to wait for 24 hours.
You can contact the Bureau for Missing Persons to report a missing person or go to your nearest police station and report that the person is missing as soon as you know they are missing.
Take with you a recent photograph of the missing person so that it can be scanned into the National Bureau for Missing person database. This database is a Crime Stop project and police all over the country use it.
Give any information that might help to identify the person, such as their age, height, hair colour, eye colour, and any identifying marks such as scars or tattoos. You may be asked to fill in forms giving all this information.
A detective will be assigned to the case.
You should make sure that you have the name and contact details of the detective, and keep in contact with them.
You should give that detective any new information about the missing person that you get after you have reported the case.
Remember to inform the police should the missing person be found.
What do you do when someone goes missing in South Africa?
This means that police throughout South Africa can be on the lookout for the missing person.
Crime Stop often broadcasts missing persons on TV so that anyone with information about a missing person can call Crime Stop on 08600 10111.
What happens to unclaimed bodies in South Africa?
In an earlier interview with the SABC, Deputy Director-General of Gauteng Hospital Services Dr. Modupe Modisane said that unclaimed bodies are buried in marked graves, meaning that should a family show up after the burial, the body can be exhumed for the family to do a proper burial.
South African social security agency contact details
012 427 4000Contact Details
| Postal | PO Box 1037, Menlyn, 0077 |
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| Physical | Musanda Complex, Delmas Road, Pretoria |
| Tel | 012 427 4000 |
| Fax | 012 480 7582 |
| Web | www.ssa.gov.za |