IOL journalist Robin-Lee Francke highlights determined Saldanha Bay community's unyielding search for missing child Joshlin ...

Racquel "Kelly" Smith, the mother of 6-year-old Joshlin Smith, has been sentenced to life in prison alongside two other men in connection with the trafficking of her child Jacquen Appollis and Steveno ...

An Elsies River family pleads for an end to false claims linking their daughter, Shenikah, to missing child Joshlin Smith, as online rumours cause distress.

An Elsies River mother has appealed to social media users to stop linking her daughter to Joshlin Smith, saying it has left ...

A mother and two accomplices have been sentenced to life imprisonment for trafficking her then-six-year-old daughter, in a case that captivated South Africa. Kelly Smith, her boyfriend, Jacquen ...

The main trial was put on ice recently to test the amicability of confession statements by co-accused, Jacquen Appollis and Steveno van Rhyn, who claimed they had been tortured by police into ...

A mother and her two accomplices have been found guilty of kidnapping and trafficking her six-year-old daughter, in a case that gained nationwide attention. Joshlin Smith, then 6, disappeared from her ...

JOHANNESBURG, May 29 (Reuters) - A South African mother and two accomplices were sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday for trafficking her then-6-year-old daughter, in a case that gained ...

The Middelpos girl was reported missing by her mother Kelly Smith on 19 February 2024, but she was later arrested with Lombaard and two others for her daughter’s disappearance. Lombaard described how ...

The court said Racquel "Kelly" Smith was unremorseful for kidnapping and selling her daughter Racquel "Kelly" Smith was sentenced alongside a boyfriend a mutual friend A South African court on ...

A South African mother and two others were sentenced to life in prison this week for trafficking the woman's 6-year-old daughter. Judge Nathan Erasmus sentenced Smith and the two men to life in prison ...