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.
Shortly before 8AM yesterday, six suspects took Shahnawaz Asghar from outside his home and fled the scene in a vehicle with cloned licence plates.
This man thought he was going to her apartment for a booty call, but it turned into hours of “sadistic” torture, including a demand of $100 000 in ransom.
More harrowing details have emerged about businesswoman Sandra Munsamy’s intense 162-day hostage situation following her 2019 kidnapping.
A mother and businesswoman testified in the Durban high court about her intense 162-day hostage situation.
Denyse Holt was rescued from a hostage situation in her own home in Chicago due in large part to her failure to complete the game’s daily challenge.
With kidnappings so rampant at present, it pays to know what to do if the situation ever had to arise.
With the case of the four Moti brothers having gripped the nation, ending with a possible ransom payment of R50 million, how our law enforcement deals with kidnappings is under the microscope.
Last week, the four Moti brothers were returned home. Their kidnapping captured the attention of the nation, with a high degree of planning and sophistication having gone into their abduction.
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On October 20, seven gunmen attacked a vehicle carrying the Moti brothers (Zidan, 7, Zayyad, 11, Alaan, 13, and Zia, 15) en route to school in Polokwane.
Last Wednesday, seven gunmen attacked a vehicle carrying the Moti brothers en route to school in Polokwane. It was a sophisticated operation.
A Pretoria businessman was abducted on Tuesday, and his driver killed, with kidnappers now demanding a R180 million ransom for his return.
Tharina Human, who was once very close with Amy’Leigh’s mother, Angeline, was allegedly desperate to get her hands on some cash by whatever means necessary.
Angeline de Jager says her daughter isn’t coping very well in the aftermath of her kidnapping, and recounted the moment she was snatched.
64-year-old Noor Karriem is the latest Cape businessman to be kidnapped, with a spate occurring over the past few years.
In a new video summary of what we know thus far, News24 has obtained voice notes from Tharina Human, sent on the same morning that Amy’Leigh was kidnapped.
The room where Amy’Leigh was kept has been called “dirty, dark and almost like a dungeon”, as more details of the behind-the-scenes effort to secure her return emerge.
Yesterday morning, South Africa breathed a collective sigh of relief when six-year-old Amy-Leigh de Jager was reunited with her family.
Six-year-old Amy-Leigh de Jager has been reunited with her family, after a man and a woman found her crying in the street in the early hours of the morning.
Six-year-old Amy-Leigh de Jager was snatched from outside Laerskool Kollegepark in Vanderbijlpark at around 7:40AM today.
Footage shows the armed robbery and abduction of a Johannesburg businessman, which took place at around 10AM on Saturday.
It’s been more than two years since photojournalist Shiraaz Mohamed was captured in Syria, but his family have never given up hope that he is alive.
Tragically, for the family of Timmothy Pitzen, the search continues, with DNA confirming that the person claiming to be the long lost boy is lying.
In May 2011, Timmothy Pitzen was taken from school by his mother. She committed suicide, leaving behind a note stating that her son would never be found.
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Over the past few years, there has been an alarming rise in the number of kidnappings for ransom. Some of the sums demanded are pretty eye-popping.
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