GRAAFF-REINET NEWS - The police, farmers, farmworkers and the community continued to search for missing Aberdeen farm girl, Tri-Annette 'Kleintjie' Mintoor (6) on 4 August. Mintoor was reported missing on 29 July after she visited a friend on the farm, The Ranges, in a mountainous area approximately 70km from home between Aberdeen and Murraysburg.
Mintoor left home on Monday 27 July from the farm, Perseverance, to watch a group of workers shave sheep. She was last seen on 28 July at around 18:00.
Allegations are that she wanted to go back home to her parents, Abraham and Felicity Reiners, and then ventured down the gravel road in a mountainous area between Aberdeen and Murraysburg.
She was last seen dressed in a blue shirt, blue jean and white and black jogging shoes.
Police Spokesperson, Capt Bradley Rawlinson, said police came from as far as Port Elizabeth to help with the search, together with the Aberdeen and Graaff-Reinet SAPS, the Mounted Unit, Family, Child and Sexual Unit, as well as farmers, farmworkers and community members.
The Graaff-Reinet Community Safety Group (GVE) was called in on 1 August to assist the police in the search for Mintoor.
Owners of the farm, Perseverance, Morné and Petro Marx, said Mintoor and her parents have been on the farm for the last four years.
"Kleintjie is such a loving child. We will do everything in our power to locate her," Petro said on 4 August, where they and farmers from surrounding farms, as well as the police, continued the search with drones and on foot.
Kleintjie is a Grade 1 learner at Aberdeen Primary School.
Anyone with information on Mintoor's whereabouts can phone the investigation officer, Detective Sergeant Valomia Abrahams on 071 352 4524.
Members of the Port Elizabeth Mounted Unit,
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