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SA is losing the fight against human trafficking: Missing Children South Africa

Civil society organisation Missing Children South Africa, says the country is losing the fight against human trafficking. The organisation was reacting to the recent kidnapping of eight-year-old Abirah Dekhta, who was allegedly taken by two armed men, while on her way to school in Gatesville in Cape Town. National coordinator at Missing Children South Africa, Bianca van Aswegen says it is a pandemic. “It’s literally a pandemic that we’re facing, with […]

6 November 2022

Local

Bodies of missing Stellenbosch teens recovered from local dam

LOCAL Police have recovered the bodies of two missing teens from a dam in Stellenbosch on Monday morning. Family and friends sought the help of the public after the pair, aged 18 and 19, were last seen leaving a local apartment at around midnight on Friday. According to Warrant Officer Joseph Swartbooi, a community member alerted police to the car floating in the quarry in Paul Kruger Street. The bodies, […]

24 October 2022

Local

Pupils find body of missing Paarl girl, 4, in bushes next to school rugby field

LOCAL A four-year-old girl who went missing in Paarl in the Western Cape on Sunday was found dead on Monday afternoon. Police spokesperson Capt Frederick van Wyk said the girl was reported missing at the Paarl East police station at 4pm on Sunday. “A search party was arranged and on Monday afternoon scholars at a primary school found her body in the bushes next to the school's rugby field. The […]

27 September 2022

News

CPT’s Moosa “Lallie” Adams, 74, found unharmed after nearly two weeks

By Tauhierah Salie The relieved family of Boeta Moosa “Lallie” Adams are still rejoicing their relative’s safe return. The 74-year-old was found unharmed on Saturday morning, after being missing for almost two weeks. Adams, who has dementia, had disappeared from Mitchells Plain while attempting to visit a friend in Woodstock. According to a family member, Boeta Adams was found in Khayelitsha on Wednesday and later uncovered by the family at […]

30 July 2022

Local

Missing Cape Town man found dead after nine-day search

Gus Thompson, the father of former SA Olympic-medallist rower James Thompson, was found dead on Chapmans Peak in Cape Town on Saturday, more than a week after he disappeared from a frail-care facility in Noordhoek. James Thompson referred TimesLIVE to Gwen Sparks, who is acting as a spokesperson for the family. “Gus was found below the picnic area at Chapman’s Peak at 9am. The last sighting of him was last […]

24 July 2022

Local

Family appeals to public to help locate Shireen Essop

LOCAL MISSING PERSON ALERT: An urgent appeal has been made to the public requesting their help in locating Shireen Essop, 32, who was last seen at 14h00 today in a white Toyota on Weltevreden Road. According to her brother in-law, Hamied, the car has been recovered (reportedly in Khayelitsha) but Shireen remains missing. Anyone with information on Shireen’s whereabouts are requested to contact the family immediately on 082 22 882 […]

24 May 2022

Local

Search for missing bus driver in KwaZulu-Natal prioritised

The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) says it has made the search for a missing driver in Marrianhill in KwaZulu-Natal its priority. A local resident from the Nteke area who was able to save more than 20 passengers in a bus that a flooded river had washed away has been commended for his bravery. Nkanyiso Mbhense, who was inside the bus when it was washed away, managed to jump […]

29 April 2022

News

Moti brothers still missing

Police in Polokwane are still searching for the Moti brothers. The four boys were allegedly kidnapped on their way to school on Wednesday. It's reported that the car they were in was stopped by seven heavily armed men. The Moti family still have no idea where the siblings could be, and the motive for the kidnapping remains unknown, with no ransom demand having been received. Police are calling on anyone […]

23 October 2021

International News

Passenger plane goes missing in Russia’s far east

A Russian AN-26 aeroplane with at least 28 people on board has gone missing in Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s far east, news agencies cited regional authorities as saying. It was flying from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Palana in the Kamchatka Peninsula when it did not make a scheduled call-in, the Interfax, RIA and TASS news agencies quoted local officials as saying on Tuesday. The plane lost contact with air traffic control while […]

6 July 2021

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