Cape Town Car Deal Turns Deadly: Hawks Bust Alleged Kidnappers After Ransom Horror

A vehicle viewing turned into a nightmare as a Cape Town man was kidnapped, ransomed, and murdered. Now four suspects are facing the music.
Suspects Charged For Kidnapping Of Businessman And Outrageous R15 Million Ransom

Three more suspects have now stood before the bench in connection with the brazen kidnapping of businessman Eddie Duarte Gouveia.
Benedict Cumberbatch Reveals Psychological Impact Of Abduction In South Africa 20 Years Ago

The renowned actor said the terrifying incident happened while he was filming a TV show in South Africa and has changed the way he lives his life.
Security Guard Arrested Over Kidnapping Of Cape Town Family

The Hawks believe the kidnappers could be part of a syndicate responsible for kidnappings in the Western Cape.
Kidnapping Horror In Cape Winelands As Elderly Briton And Young Woman Held For Ransom

These two alarming kidnapping-for-ransom cases have rocked the Western Cape’s scenic winelands region.
Daughter Of Sexual Abuser Spreading The Word About Father Abducting Six-Year-Old Girl, Both Last Spotted In Cape Town [Videos]

Susana Kennedy has been spreading the word of a child abduction across social media, stating that her biological father, a man named Carlos Rebelo, was abusive towards her and that she knows “what he is capable of”.
Ransom Demand For 39-Year-Old Alize van der Merwe, Kidnapped En Route To Wild Coast Resort

There is now a deep concern about “escalating incidents of criminality against tourists” in the Eastern Cape.
Police Free Jozi Businessman From Kidnapping Syndicate And Bust Them For R300 Million Worth Of Drugs

A multidisciplinary team was led to a hotel in East Gate and two apartments in Fourways where they arrested six suspects and seized drugs suspected to be crystal meth worth R300 million.
Kidnappers Demand Ransom For Prominent Gqeberha Businessman

The desperate hunt for kidnapped businessman Calvin Naidoo enters the sixth day, with the kidnappers now demanding a ransom.
Gauteng’s ‘Grindr Gang’ Who Catfished Online Matches To Kidnap For Ransom Facing Charges In Cape Town Court

South Africa’s ‘Grindr Gang’ has been running rampant, but at least three Sowetan men alleged to be part of the kidnapping for ransom operation appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court.
South Africa Climbs To Sixth Place In The World For Kidnappings For Ransom

Insurers are warning Saffas about this new form of crime making waves in the country, as criminals target anyone, and change their demands depending on how quickly they can get something out.
Kidnappings For Ransom Has Become A Lucrative Business In South Africa

This worrying trend is bolstered by the fact that we are listed seventh in the world for organised crime activities.
Joshlin Smith’s Mother Is Now Pregnant In Pollsmoor

The mother of the missing Saldanha Bay girl, Joshlin Smith, is pregnant while awaiting trial behind bars in Cape Town’s notorious Pollsmoor Prison.
Monday Morning Spice

Leon Schuster is in hospital, Putin critics who met untimely deaths, Nesquik to be discontinued, and How a note at a petrol station led to a kidnapped woman’s rescue.
The Alleged Kidnapping Of Carlee Russell Is Racking Police’s Brains, Mostly Because They Can’t Corroborate Anything She Told Them

Last week, Carlee Russell was driving home from work when she called 911 to say she was stopping her car to check on a toddler who was walking on the highway and then called a family member who lost contact with her.
Kidnapped South African Gerco Van Deventer Pleads For Help [Video]

“I am requesting any assistance to facilitate, help me build a bridge to the outside world.”
Monday Morning Spice

Another kidnapping, Kanye likes Jewish people after watching 21 Jump Street, Canada’s crypto king abducted and tortured, ‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero granted a presidential pardon, and Donald Trump calls for destruction.
The Crime In Rondebosch Is Getting Intense

A man was shot and killed at a restaurant in Rondebosch shortly after a woman was rescued from an attempted kidnapping situation.
Police Found Kidnapped Cape Town Lawyer Because Of File On His Desk

An investigation was launched for a missing lawyer after the detectives noted the “strange circumstances surrounding this incident”.
Now SA Kidnapping For Ransom Syndicates Are Extending Their Victim Pool To Low/Middle-Income Earners

Most alarmingly, kidnapping syndicates are extending their victim pool, increasingly targeting mid- to lower-income individuals now.
Monday Morning Spice

Kidnapped CT woman found. Pink diamond sells for R1bn. Parents raising genderless kids. Kanye goes anti-Semitic. Cruise heads to space.
Broad Daylight Cape Kidnapping Scourge Continues [Videos]

A woman was snatched from her bright yellow Audi R8 in broad daylight on Thursday, right outside the company reportedly owned by her husband.
First-Of-Its-Kind Hostage Situation As Ransom Demanded For Chimps

The kidnappers are holding the animals, aged between two and five, hostage and demanding a six-figure ransom.
Alleged Gqeberha Baby Snatchers Were “Just Joking” [Video]

Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and your baby in a shopping trolley closest of all.
“Already I Am Dead, Give Money”: Latest Cape Kidnapping Ransom Video Released

37-year-old Akter Pradhan was kidnapped in broad daylight last Friday. It hasn’t taken long for the kidnappers’ ransom demands to be made.
Brazen Daylight Kidnapping In Cape Town Raises Fears [Video]

The scourge of kidnappings across the Cape continues and the syndicates pulling them off appear to operate with impunity.
Uncertainty Around Ransom Demand For Return Of Kidnapped Cape Town Six-Year-Old

Shortly before 8AM yesterday, six suspects took Shahnawaz Asghar from outside his home and fled the scene in a vehicle with cloned licence plates.
Harrowing 111-Day Kidnapping Ordeal Finally Ends For Cape Businessman

The CEO and founder of Good Hope Construction in Parow was snatched from his office in March by a gang of men wielding AK-47s.
Infamous ‘Gone Girl’ Kidnapping Story Comes To A Close

California law enforcement wrongly accused a couple of lying about their kidnapping ordeal, likening it to ‘Gone Girl’, until the perpetrator was finally arrested.
More Harrowing Details From SA Woman’s R154 Million Kidnapping Hell

More harrowing details have emerged about businesswoman Sandra Munsamy’s intense 162-day hostage situation following her 2019 kidnapping.