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 suspect has been detained in connection with the abduction and will appear in the Gqeberha magistrate’s court for a bail application on Friday.
Instances of abduction have almost doubled in South Africa, with 4,028 cases of kidnapping being registered in 2022.