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Social media has been blowing up with stories about abducted children in Cape Town, causing mass panic. But how much of it is actually true?
In a truly odd tale, a group of naked people kidnapped their neighbours and then crashed their car in an effort to escape the end of the world.
21-year-old Charmaine Erick screamed and fought her attackers, as she narrowly escaped being kidnapped in Rembrandt Park on Tuesday.
Mozambican gangster Nini Satar, who has been arrested this week, is suspected to be the head of a crime syndicate responsible for kidnapping a Cape Town businessman.
Liyaqat Parker, 65, was kidnapped on Monday by five armed men. Now his kidnappers have allegedly made their demand for a hefty ransom via email.
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The Cape-based botanists who went missing in KZN have yet to be found, but an affidavit read out in court yesterday suggests the two may no longer be alive.
More information about the Cape Town-based couple who went missing while travelling through KZN has been released. That ISIS-linked duo are still at the centre of it all.
According to police and intelligence agencies, a pair of kidnappers they’ve just nabbed are involved with “a cell with ties to the global terror group ISIS”.
Walking with her child in her arms down a Durban street, a mother was the victim of an attempted kidnapping. The man still gets away, despite being hit by a car.
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.
David and Louise Turpin aren’t exactly model parents, and the more we learn about their methods the worse it gets. How about the Elvis obsession?
A 39-year-old man in Mossel Bay took family members hostage yesterday, firing on police during a tense stand off. It didn’t end well for him.
When the grandson of multi-billionaire John Paul Getty was kidnapped, he refused to pay the ransom which resulted in a draw-out ordeal filled with tragedy. Now, there’s a film about it.
After being kidnapped as a potential sex slave, photographs of British model Chloe Ayling have surfaced, showing what it looks like to be snapped for a dark web advert.
Back in July Sadeck Zhaun Ahmed was tasered and thrown in the back of a bakkie in Salt River, and now the kidnappers want some serious cash for his return.
A 20-year-old Brit, abducted on her way to a photoshoot in Milan, was set to be auctioned off online. Luckily for her, one detail ensured her freedom.
A video of a potential kidnapping at a Spur has gone viral, and it is a stern warning to parents to be vigilant at all times.
This one is rather tough to sum up, but it appears that a YouTube video might just hold the key to finding out the fate of a girl who’s been missing for seven years.
It’s the story that seems so far-fetched filmmakers were hesitant to take it on, but sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction.
We know that Brazil has a reputation for the odd kidnapping, but these criminals were aiming big when they took Aparecida Schunck last week.
A mother at Jozi’s Mall of the South has spoken of her shock after a stranger grabbed her child – take a look and see what you think.
Lee Kaplan, 51, was harbouring 12 young girls when police searched his place. Authorities are yet to determine who they really are.
Parents around the Western Cape went into full panic earlier this week, but now the woman at the centre of the mess speaks out.
In the weirdest instance of an attempted kidnapping, a man tried to take a young girl right from under her mother’s nose.
A number of parents have reported suspicious incidents regarding a blonde woman, and although the police don’t seem bothered some parents are freaking out.
A family in Observatory has shared the story of their child almost being taken, in the hopes that they can catch the guilty party.