A Cape Town lawyer kidnapped on Friday has been rescued by police, who arrested three people after successfully pursuing several leads. The traumatised victim was found a day later, in a town 280km away from his home in Bellville, police spokesperson Warrant Officer Joseph Swartbooi said. His wife had reported him missing on Friday evening as he had not returned home from work. Bellville detectives launched a search and, after […]
INTERNATIONAL Malaysian police have freed a Palestinian man who had allegedly been kidnapped and interrogated by agents of Mossad, Israel's national intelligence agency, in Kuala Lumpur, according to reports in the New Straits Times and Al Jazeera Arabic. The Malaysian newspaper said the Palestinian computer programmer, who is from Gaza and has not been named, was forced into a car in the capital on 28 September by Malaysian nationals who had been trained by […]
A Cape Town businessman who was kidnapped in March has been rescued from his captors in a midnight takedown operation. Ismail Rajah, 69, was kidnapped outside his business premises in Parow. Police rescued him from a house in Khayelitsha this week. “Following his kidnapping, a ransom demand was made to his family. It is reported that the family were already en route to Dubai to expedite the ransom payment when […]
Kidnapped Pretoria businessman Omar Carrim has been released and has been reunited with his family. He was kidnapped 137 days ago shortly after leaving his business Home Hyper City. “On behalf of the family, I can confirm the release of Omar Carrim (76). He was released in Olifantsfontein this evening at about 10.30pm,” said anti-crime activist Yusuf Abramjee. Carrim has been admitted to an undisclosed hospital where he is getting […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
