For five days, 10-year-old Kopano Molelekedi lay in a morgue in Soweto as a girl with no name.
Just 15km away, a family was frantically searching for their little child, who never made it to her mother’s home in Jerusalema township outside Roodepoort, near Johannesburg.
Finally, days later, a family member working at Soweto’s Noordgesig Clinic made the connection when she saw a description of the missing girl. Molelekedi was found in the mortuary at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto.
But it was just the start of a nightmare for her family that began on September 6 2018.
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This five-part investigative series is a collaboration between the Sunday Times and MultimediaLIVE after a two-year investigation that remains unresolved.
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