Former SABC CEO Solly Mokoetle has gone missing, communications minister Faith Muthambi said on Tuesday.
Mokoetle disappeared on Friday.
Muthambi had been in touch with his family in an effort to find him, she said in a statement.
According to a missing person poster circulating online, he went to the gate of his Hillhead Drive home in Mount Edgecombe, Umhlanga around 10pm. He was in his pyjamas and went to meet someone. He never came back.
Mokoetle is head of the broadcasting digital migration project in Muthabi’s ministry.
She called on anyone with information about his whereabouts to contact his family or police.
Update: According to a number of reports, Mokoetle has been found and is in a Durban hospital. No further details are available at the moment.