Ecuador seems to be a nice place to visit this time of year, with its Amazon jungle, Andean highlands, wildlife-rich Galápagos Islands, and guys loitering in the streets with explosives strapped to their bodies.
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.
Keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and your baby in a shopping trolley closest of all.
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.
A staff member at a Spar in Gauteng is insisting that he meant no harm when he took a lady’s baby from her trolley while she wasn’t looking.
Shortly before 8AM yesterday, six suspects took Shahnawaz Asghar from outside his home and fled the scene in a vehicle with cloned licence plates.
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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.
California law enforcement wrongly accused a couple of lying about their kidnapping ordeal, likening it to ‘Gone Girl’, until the perpetrator was finally arrested.
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.
The kidnapping of businessmen in our country shows no signs of slowing down, as a hardware store owner in Vereeniging was taken on Thursday morning.
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.
The musician battled alcohol and drug addiction prior to his death in 1970 at the age of 27. In the curious case of his New York kidnapping, they definitely helped to soothe his nerves.
Reports allege that 162 schoolkids have been abducted from a school in the North West by drunk people posing as parents.