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14 August 2019
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Missing man found in Bethlehem BETHLEHEM: The search for Sunwich Port man, Hendrik Christoffel van der Merwe (60) has ended. He was reported missing on July 1. He was last seen by his fiancee Mariana Williams after he left for home after a prayer meeting. When she arrived home he and his car were not there, but his cellphone had been left behind. A full scale investigation was launched to find Mr. van der Merwe. A few later the police in Komatipoort found a body and believed it was Mr. van der Merwe.
Police then later confirmed that the body found at Komatipoort near Hectorspruit as that of Hennie de Beer of Machadodorp. According to Captain Louis Stander, Hendrik van der Merwe’s family also visited the morgue the following Monday and confirmed that the body was not that of Mr van der Merwe. Police confirmed that Mr van der Merwe had been found safe in Bethlehem on Wednesday, 7 August 2019.