This worrying trend is bolstered by the fact that we are listed seventh in the world for organised crime activities.
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More than 1,300 children are kidnapped every month, according to Missing Children South Africa, with SA ranked first on the African continent in kidnappings and seventh-highest worldwide.
Kelly Smith was charged along with her boyfriend, Jacquen Appollis, and two others, following their arrest.
The warning follows the disappearance of four children in the Western Cape in the last two weeks.
According to reports the man, a foreign national, “needed money for gambling”.
Grindr has said it was “acutely aware of this deeply troubling situation” happening in Jozi, referring to the kidnapping of a 22-year-old man who was lured using the dating app.
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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.
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They’ve arrested a mastermind behind the kidnappings of several foreigners, including a South African woman of German descent who was snatched outside their family business in Parow.
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It was put in the public domain that the boyfriend failed to pay R3,5 million in costs and that he was sequestrated as well as the fact that the complainant and her father refused to testify in the inquiry.
A man was shot and killed at a restaurant in Rondebosch shortly after a woman was rescued from an attempted kidnapping situation.
Instances of abduction have almost doubled in South Africa, with 4,028 cases of kidnapping being registered in 2022.
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All teenagers get up to some dickens every now and again, but this Limpopo teen thought that a skelm drink with his buddies was for the birds, and went about faking his own kidnapping.
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An investigation was launched for a missing lawyer after the detectives noted the “strange circumstances surrounding this incident”.
Most alarmingly, kidnapping syndicates are extending their victim pool, increasingly targeting mid- to lower-income individuals now.
Moehydien Pangaker kidnapped, raped, and murdered a little girl in 2020 while on parole for the murder of his own son in 2001.
A disturbing video shows the moment a man tried to pull a barista through a drive-thru window.
As a mere bystander in this situation, you would have been forgiven for making a few wild assumptions.
This is based on South Africa’s latest crime stats for the second quarter of the year, released by Police Minister Bheki Cele in Pretoria yesterday.
A woman was snatched from her bright yellow Audi R8 in broad daylight on Thursday, right outside the company reportedly owned by her husband.
The kidnappers are holding the animals, aged between two and five, hostage and demanding a six-figure ransom.
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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.
The scourge of kidnappings across the Cape continues and the syndicates pulling them off appear to operate with impunity.