Almost a week after being hi-jacked with his father, Mongezi Phike saw his mother on TV when she appeared on the Saturday night news. The appeal got straight to the very person she was hoping to find, her son.

Yesterday, Mongezi’s mother, Lizzy, said her son, abducted in a hijacking, told her that, while he was at a shelter for children in Jeppestown, Johannesburg, he saw her on TV.

He told one of the caregivers that that was his mother.

His mother had appeared on the 7pm TV news on Saturday appealing for his return.

A caretaker at the shelter phoned the commander of the Bronkhorstspruit police station – and at 3am on Sunday Lizzy was reunited with her son.

“Yo! Yo! I’m so happy,” Lizzy said yesterday at her home in Ekangala, near Bronkhorstspruit.

Later yesterday morning Lizzy woke her husband, Aaron, in hospital to tell him that Mongezi had been found. Aaron had been injured in the hijacking.

With a recent spate of children going missing or being injured or killed in hi-jackings, this reunited family brings us a ray of hope and good news.

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