According to reports, both women were freed on Thursday afternoon after their kidnappers allegedly “panicked” because they realised police were closing in.
The desperate hunt for kidnapped businessman Calvin Naidoo enters the sixth day, with the kidnappers now demanding a ransom.
The UDM has confirmed that the MP was hijacked, kidnapped and released after a ransom of R25,000 was paid.
Nearly three weeks after being kidnapped outside a Brits primary school, cousins Mohamed Bataviya, 19, and Zahraa Mohamed, 17, have finally been freed after a successful sting operation by police.
Major upgrades for South Africa’s main airports, Hostage situation at McDonald’s in Durban, 1.3 tons of cocaine found hidden in frozen fish, Mantashe crowns himself most productive energy minister, and The Annual Walk-a-Thon for Capetonian doggies is back.
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.
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.
Most alarmingly, kidnapping syndicates are extending their victim pool, increasingly targeting mid- to lower-income individuals now.
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.
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.
With kidnappings so rampant at present, it pays to know what to do if the situation ever had to arise.
Lisette Lombard’s Jack Russel went missing after a run on Table Mountain this past Saturday and now she is warning everyone that there might be a “syndicate of dog kidnappers operating in the area”.
The origin story of ransomware includes a Harvard-taught evolutionary biologist, 20 000 floppy discs, and motives that remain somewhat unclear to this day.
Sophisticated crime syndicates are making millions off high-profile kidnappings for ransom in South Africa.
Enzo Ferrari is a name known right around the world, and apparently thieves in Italy thought his long-buried body would fetch quite a ransom.
Charly, the world’s smallest (hence, cutest) pony has been kidnapped from a horse fair in Italy. The police, who aren’t horsing around on the issue, are suspecting the mafia will hold the pony for ransom.