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Bangladeshi businessman kidnapped in Mitchells Plain reunited with family

LOCAL Western Cape police have confirmed that Bangladeshi businessowner Akhtar Pradhan has been reunited with his family. Police opened cases of kidnapping and extortion after the 37-year-old was forced into a vehicle by armed suspects in Mitchells Plain on Friday, 26 August. A graphic video went viral last week, depicting the handcuffed and visibly injured man pleading with an unknown person on the phone, for money to be brought. He […]

today12 September 2022

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Investigations underway after Lansdowne businessman fatally shot

VOC Tributes poured in for 40-year-old Khalid Parker, who was fatally shot outside his business in Lansdowne this morning. Police confirm that he was attacked by three armed men in Imam Haron road at 10am. According to eyewitnesses, the suspects were trying to kidnap Parker, and shot him when he tried to call for help.   Police say he sustained a fatal gunshot to the head and was declared deceased by […]

today9 September 2022

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Kensington community remain tense as kidnapped boy, 6, still missing

By: Aneeqa du Plessis With more than 24-hours gone, residents in the Kensington area have continued relentless searches for Grade R learner Shanawaaz Asghar, 6, who was kidnapped outside of his home yesterday. Asghar was snatched by a group of men whilst en route to his school, Hidayatul Islam, a mere stone’s-throw away from his house on the corner of 4th Avenue and 9th Street. However, since the story broke […]

today18 August 2022

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‘Those who kidnap boys and take them to illegal initiation schools will face the law’

The chairperson of the National Initiation Oversight Committee (NIOC) iKosi Vimbi Mahlangu warned that those who kidnap boy children and take them to an initiation school will face the law. This comes after some parents at Emalahleni, Kriel and Middelburg in Mpumalanga raised concerns that their kidnapped children have been found in one of the illegal initiation schools. Mahlangu further added that, if parents find out that their children have been […]

today17 May 2022

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‘Abducted’ bank manager rescued after dramatic car chase, ransom money recovered

LOCAL Police in Polokwane arrested two suspects and rescued a regional bank manager allegedly abducted while jogging at the weekend and held for ransom. Brig Motlafela Mojapelo said the 56-year-old went on a jog at about 9am on Saturday when he was abducted not far from his home in Welgelegen on the outskirts of the city. Mojapelo said the abductors contacted the victim's relatives and demanded a substantial sum of […]

today16 May 2022

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TWO SUSPECTS DUE IN COURT FOLLOWING THEIR ARREST ON CHARGES OF KIDNAPPING AND EXTORTION

Two foreign nationals were arrested in an intensive investigation by South African Police Service (SAPS) yesterday after the pair were found to be involved in a kidnapping case last month. SAPS’ Spokesperson, Colonel Andrè Traut said Gauteng detectives partnered with Meadowlands police conducted a raid at a storage facility in Johannesburg where a total of eleven kidnapped Ethiopian males were found. Five of the eleven victims are from the Western […]

today23 October 2021

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Southern Africa ‘fertile ground’ for extremism, expert warns after kidnap arrests

Police are reluctant to divulge details after the rescue operation of a kidnapped foreign businessman in an early-morning raid in Johannesburg and the arrest of nine people, including several foreign nationals. On Sunday afternoon, officers conducting follow-up operations arrested four people, including a woman, who are allegedly linked to a kidnapping syndicate. The syndicate is suspected of being involved with other organised crime gangs linked to kidnappings around the country. […]

today28 July 2020

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