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Kidnapping. Kidnapping in South Africa is a common crime in the country, with over 4,100 in the 2013/2014 period, and a child going missing every five hours. [1][2] The 1966 kidnapping for ransom of Etty Glazer for R140,000 was 4 times the ransom paid in the Lindbergh kidnapping and was the highest paid ransom demand in the world at the time. [3]
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Miché Solomon. Parent (s) Morne Nurse (father) Celeste Nurse (mother) Zephany Nurse (born 28 April 1997), is a South African woman who was abducted from Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa on 30 April 1997, when she was two days old. Nurse was reunited with her biological parents, Morne and Celeste Nurse, 17 years later, after ...
By CCN.com: Two people have been arrested by police in Mpumalanga, South Africa in connection with the kidnapping of a 13-year-old boy in Witbank whose family was then told to pay the equivalent ...
In late July 2017, McGown was released and returned to South Africa. [12] South African officials refused to comment on the terms of the negotiations, but The New York Times reported that the South African government paid €3.5 million (about $4.2 million) to McGown's captors using South African charity Gift of the Givers as an intermediary. [13]
A close call. Rebel Wilson opened up about the “petrifying” moment she got kidnapped and held at gunpoint while visiting a country in southern Africa. Rebel Wilson and Jacob Busch: A Timeline ...
Stompie Seipei Born James Seipei 1974 Parys, South Africa Died 1 January 1989 (aged 14) Soweto, Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa Cause of death Murdered (by Jerry Vusi Richardson) Other names Stompie Moeketsi James Seipei (1974 – 1 January 1989), also known as Stompie Moeketsi or Stompie Sepei, was a teenage United Democratic Front (UDF) activist from Parys ...
South African. Occupation. Student. Parent (s) Rob and Sharon Matthews. Leigh Matthews (8 July 1983 – 9 July 2004) was a South African university student who was kidnapped and murdered. Her disappearance and murder sparked a media frenzy, with the ensuing investigation and court case being one of the most closely followed in South African ...