Bloemfontein residents in fear as kidnapping syndicates targets young women

BLOEMFONTEIN - Families of women kidnapped in Bloemfontein, say every day without their loved ones, gets even harder.

At least three women and a girl have mysteriously disappeared since October in the City of Roses. The women are still missing, but 16-year-old Machaka Radebe was murdered.

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On the 30th of October, five days before Lesego Mamello Motaung was to celebrate her twenty-second birthday, she disappeared.

That day, her aunt, Julia Mogoasi, who stayed with her, received a call at work. She says she heard Mamello's voice over the phone calling to her for help, "I asked where she was and she said she is in a bush and she has been abducted," explains Mogoasi.

That was the last time she heard from Mamello, as the abductor interrupted and told the aunt she was running out of time to pay a ten-thousand rand ransom. Nearly two months later, Mogoasi has not heard from the kidnapper again. And Mamello is still missing.