KIDNAPPINGS have become “one of the most profitable crimes” in South Africa.
Despite breakthroughs by police and private investigators in arresting members of kidnapping syndicates, there has been a rise in copycat gangs and new gangs in recent months.
In Durban, two schoolgirls were lucky to escape after kidnappers tried to snatch them, in separate incidents, while walking home from school.
Last Monday, a 9-year-old girl from Havenside, in Chatsworth,