Distressed families in limbo as missing persons crisis grips SA
One organisation said it had recorded a significant increase in missing person alerts in 2026 Every day, distressed families across South Africa flood social media with photographs of missing loved ones, clinging to the hope that one share, one sighting or one phone call will finally bring them home.
The case remains one of many long-term missing persons investigations in South Africa where families continue to live in painful uncertainty.
Each year we see an increase in children going missing as kidnappings and human trafficking escalate in our country,” said criminologist and Missing Children South Africa national co-ordinator, Bianca van Aswegen.
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