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SUCH GOOD BOYS

‘THESE KIDNAPPERS DIDN’T TAKE ONE FAMILY MEMBER. THEY TOOK FOUR’

IT’S the kind of thing no parent can comprehend and it was no different for the close-knit community of Nirvana when theyheardabout the kidnapping of four children fromtheirneighbourhood.

It seemed unthinkable that four boys could be snatched by seven heavily armed men on their way to school without so much as a trace even days after they were taken.

Yet, as South Africans well know, this is what happened to Zia (15), Alaan (13), Zayyad (11) and Zidan (6) Moti, on 20 October.

The community of upmarket suburb Nirvana, in

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