25 Sep
2022
Tamia Botha goes missing
26 Sep
2022
Mia’s body is found
29 Sep
2022
Action Society receives the mandate
30 Sep
2022
2 suspects due in court, released without explanation
7 Oct
2022
Mia’s funeral is held in Paarl, Western Cape
8 Nov
2022
Action Society writes to the WC Police Commissioner
2 Dec
2022
No response. Action Society follows up with WC Commissioner
5 Dec
2022
WC Commissioner refuses feedback despite mandate
13 Dec
2022
Response from Provincial Head FCS. Still under investigation
2 Feb
2023
Action Society sends letter to the SAPS WC Commissioner for feedback
8 Feb
2023
Action Society sends letter to WC SAPS Service Complaint Centre
23 Jan
2024
Urgent letter to WC Commissioner over ongoing investigative and forensic failures
29 Jan
2024
SAPS requests mandate again, Action Society resends
8 Feb
2024
Letter sent to WC SAPS Service Complaint Centre
21 Feb
2024
Response from SAPS. Refuse feedback despite mandate
25 Feb
2025
Action Society sends follow up letter to WC Commissioner
4 Mar
2023
Action Society sends letter to Public Protector
6 Mar
2025
Public Protector Confirms receipt
10 Mar
2025
Response from Public Protector: Adv. S. Mathebula, appointed lead investigator
19 Mar
2025
Action Society sends letter to Portfolio Committee on Police
2 May
2025
Action Society follows up with Adv. S. Mathebula
13 May
2025
Action Society informed case has been handed over to Cold Case Unit
12 Jun
2025
Action Society follows up feedback from WC Commissioner
12 Jun
2025
Response from Public Protector conducted preliminary investigation. Awaiting outcome
15 Aug
2025
Action Society sends follow up to Public Protector
19 Jun
2025
Response from Committee Chair
10 Sep
2025
Committee response: Logged and referred to oversight authority
Mia’s case must be a priority!
Four-year-old Mia Botha vanished from a playground near her home on 25 September 2022. A day later, her lifeless body was found in Nederburg, Paarl, brutally murdered.
Yet, over 3 years later, justice remains out of reach.
No arrests.
No answers.
No urgency from authorities.
Mia’s case was assigned to SAPS Paarl East and Child Protection Services, but these units refuse to provide updates to her grieving mother, Udene, or to Action Society. Despite multiple escalations to Western Cape Provincial Commissioner, the Public Protector, The Portfolio Committee on Police and the Cold Case Unit, SAPS has failed to act.
This cannot continue.
Every day, 3 children are murdered in South Africa.
Mia must not be forgotten.
Mia was stolen from her family. When her small body was found, plastic had been forced deep down her throat—a horrifying end that no child should ever suffer.
Yet, her case is being treated with indifference and delay. The forensic investigation is still incomplete. Her killers still walk free.
We refuse to accept this. Will you stand with us?
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