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Police Minister Bheki Cele says the police are pushing back against crime in the

According to Cele, the Crime Prevention and Combating Action Plan, through Operation Shanela, is yielding results in the fight against organised crime.

SAPS show that the number of kidnappings has increased dramatically. 3641 instances were reported between January and March 2023.

Police say kidnappings rose from 3,832 cases in 2013 to nearly 11,000 cases in 2021, with most of those in Gauteng.

Police found the child at around 11pm that evening in the Roodepoort mining area.

A four-month-old baby that was kidnapped in Dobsonville, Soweto outside his home on Tuesday afternoon has been reunited with his family.

The owner of a small neighbourhood shop in Rusthof, Strand, who was kidnapped in broad daylight last month (March) was reunited with his family, while two suspects in a different kidnapping case in Grabouw were recently apprehended by police.

Provincial Commissioner of the Western Cape, Lieutenant General Thembisile Patekile has welcomed the arrest of an Egyptian duo in connection with the disappearance and subsequent murder of a former business partner, also an Egyptian national from Grabouw, during March 2023. The accused pair, aged 33 and 34, made their first court appearance in the Grabouw

The suspects reportedly pointed out where the victim’s body was buried in a shallow grave along Baden Powell Drive in Cape Town.

One Egyptian cooperated and pointed out where the body of the former business partner was buried which was later exhumed.