Ma dink blonde klets-pêl het haar gelok
mxit is glo sondebok
karien potgieter

DIE familie van 'n pragtige donkerkop-tiener van Pretoria – wat sedert einde Julie vermis is – vermoed sy is in die Baai.
Hulle het tot dié gevolgtrekking gekom nadat hulle vasgestel het daar's by 'n plaaslike kitsbank geld uit haar rekening onttrek.
Shelley Loots (17) se ma, Yvonne, het aan Son gesê sy glo vas MXit is die sondebok wat haar kind uit die huis gedryf het.
“Shelly doen home schooling en is heeldag alleen tuis. Toe ek die aand by die huis kom, lê daar net 'n briefie waarin sy sê sy is lief vir my en dat sy weggaan om haar vlerkies te sprei.
“Sy't ook gepleit dat ek nie na haar moet soek nie. Maar hóé op aarde los 'n mens jou dogter om die wye wêreld in te vaar sonder om van jou verstand af te raak van bekommernis?”
Yvonne sê dis glad nie hoe sy haar eens stil en teruggetrokke dogter ken nie. Maar sedert sy die MXit chat room op haar selfoon ontdek het, het sy soos handomkeer verander.
“Haar selfoon was omtrent aan haar kop vasgegom en sy was permanent op MXit, maak nie saak hóé baie ek daaroor gekla het nie. Ek wil nie eens dink met watse karakters sy daarop gepraat het nie.”
Yvonne sê sy kom oorspronklik van Port Elizabeth af en sy't baie familie hier. Maar Shelley is beslis nie by een van hulle nie.
Tans is hul enigste leidraad die OTM-transaksie en 'n foto van 'n blonde man met die naam Chris, wat hulle op Shelley se rekenaar gevind het.
“Ek het 'n feeling sy is saam met hom.”
Shelley is lank, fyn gebou en met donker oë en hare. Sy't ook 'n naeltjiering.
Enigiemand wat haar gewaar of weet waar sy is, kan Yvonne gerus bel by 073 190 4617 of bel insp. De Beer by 012 644 8600.

vermis: Hierdie Gautengse tiener, Shelley Loots (17), is moontlik in Port Elizabeth. Foto's: verskaf
gesoek: Die plakkaat op die website www.pinkladies.org.za.

Festive season sees rise in missing children
Posted on: 2008-01-04 12:50:32
Since the onset of the school holidays and festive season, figures for missing children have soared and many families wait in anguish for their safe return home. The Pink Ladies, a national non-governmental organisation which helps to trace missing people, says 80% of missing children are runways who leave home due to a lack of stimulation during the long school vacation. According to SAPS statistics, 77 of the 338 children under the age of 18 who were reported missing in the Western Cape between January 1 and December 31 2007 are still missing. However, these figures cannot be finalised as missing children's figures changed on a regular basis.

“Most of these children go missing during the festive season as they have nothing to do as there are no social activities to keep them busy. Some children end up missing out of exploration while others fear going home because they have bad school results. Due to this, the rate of youth suicides also increases,” says director of The Pink Ladies, known simply as Granny Debbie.

The organisation was started in March 2007 when a concerned group of citizens staged a silent protest outside of Parliament to make their voice heard against the case of a missing girl called Sheldeen. The shocking news of the abduction and death of Anastacia Wiese on the same day prompted the formation of the organisation.

“We as a group decided that enough is enough and we were going to do something about it. We started the website www.pinkladies.org.za as a tool in which people could contact us to trace any missing persons. We have done our best to create awareness of missing people by designing flyers with photos and details of the individual and putting them up everywhere. One never knows who will notice or remember the missing person in question and this approach has worked quite effectively,” she explains.

Debbie says the NGO has established a close relationship with the authorities and have been working hand in hand with the overworked and understaffed SAPS in a bid to locate any missing persons. “Our aim is to assist the police and make their job easier as they do not have the proper resources to do all the detailed work when it comes to missing children. We have been receiving many calls from SAPS and the Western Cape command has been sending us many cases to follow up on. Our police are so limited that they often cannot even make a call or send an email. We therefore feel that we have to get behind our police and help where we can. One child missing is one far too much.”

The Western Cape, in particular, has become the focal point of concern due to a spate of missing children cases in 2007. In most instances, these children, predominantly from impoverished areas on the Cape Flats, were found dead. In the latest incident, a two year old boy was reported missing from his parent's home in the N2 Gateway housing complex in Langa on January 2. Qwam Nqgengqa was left in the care of his caretaker, and was found missing when his mother returned from work. He was last seen wearing a blue pants, denim shirt and beige takkies. His photo, details and case number have been printed on a flyer and is being circulated in various communities.

“His is just one of many cases we see and hear of on a daily basis. Most of the time, the poorer families do not even have photos of their children which makes our job very difficult. We therefore urge all parents to keep photographs of their kids and to know the very important details in the event of an emergency. This helps us tremendously when we do our search,” she says.

Anyone with any information or to report any missing children, contact Debbie on 072 2147439 or email missing@pinkladies.org.za. Their website can be accessed at www.pinkladies.org.za. VOC (Tasneem Mohamed)

http://www.vocfm.co.za/public/articles.php?Articleid=34408

Sex slave epidemic hits EC
Despatch On-line
2008/11/10

THE Eastern Cape is at the centre of a human trafficking epidemic. Hundreds of children are being plucked from the safety of their homes in what has been dubbed the 21st century version of slavery.

Human rights activists this week said they feared that things could escalate as the 2010 World Cup being hosted in this country drew near, when the demand for sex workers increased to service visitors.

These were some of the findings of a United States Agency for International Development- funded report, which found that West African organised crime syndicates were operating in this province. These syndicates were found to be trafficking local girls, young and older, into commercial sexual exploitation in other parts of the country.

?Black and coloured girls, aged between 18 and 21, are being lured from their homes mainly for prostitution, but also to be used as cheap domestic labour,? the report said.

The report, titled No Experience Necessary: The Internal Trafficking of Persons in South Africa, was the result of a six-month International Organisation for Migration survey conducted from March to September throughout South Africa. The survey sought to link internal trafficking in the country to commercial sexual exploitation, forced labour and the removal of organs.

?The province of origin for victims most frequently noted was the Eastern Cape, followed by KwaZulu-Natal, Northwest Province, Limpopo and the Northern Cape,? the report read. This week, organisations involved in investigating cases and providing therapy for victims confirmed to the Saturday Dispatch that human trafficking was rife in the Eastern Cape.

Pink Ladies, a national organisation of volunteers who assist in the search for missing people, said they had over the last 18 months been working with girls trafficked into or out of the Eastern Cape.

The organisation?s director and founder, Gran Dessie, said they were currently hot on the trail of a Port Elizabeth teenager who was snatched off the beach and taken to Cape Town and then Bloemfontein.

?Foreign nationals are targeting young girls and boys, stopping at nothing to feed their ever-growing money-making business of human trafficking,? she said.

The Cape Town-based Activists Network Against the Exploitation of Children Domestic Workers recently intercepted the trafficking of two Eastern Cape girls who were in transit to other parts of the country, or even abroad.

?We are still investigating their cases and cannot say for sure where they were headed,? said an official who did not want to be named.

East London social worker and councillor Renette Jarman said she was aware that human traffickers were targeting the province, taking girls, boys and, in some cases, the whole family. ?They offer a man and his wife jobs and offer to transport and accommodate their children, too,? she said.

But once they reach their destination, terms change and they get exploited. The victims are passed from area to area by relay, but the victims never see the trafficker. ?They offer money, jobs and a better life, creating a bond of debt from which victims never recover,? Jarman said.

Living Waters, where Jarman works, recently housed and provided therapy for a 20-year-old girl who had spent a year working as a prostitute in Quigney, East London.

The girl, Jarman said, eventually escaped after working for nothing more than a daily fix of drugs and food.

?She left to go in search of her family,? said Jarman. - By NTANDO MAKHUBU

Despatch On-line 10 Nov 2008



http://www.selfmed.co.za/full_story.aspx?nid=12371

On the 5th of March 2008 Cape Courier's Admin Staff joined thousands of other individuals and companies in support of the Pink Ladies, a NGO created to bring attention to the thousands of missing and abused children throughout South Africa and the world.

For more information on The Pink Ladies please visit their website


http://capecouriers.co.za/content/view/10/11/

Pink Ladies - National Missing Children's Day - 5 March 2008
Author: The Gym Group (03 Mar 2008)

The Democratic Alliance is once again joining the in silent protest against the deaths of and the thousands of other children that are victims of crime and abuse in this country.
According to the latest police statistics on child victims of crime, it is reported that between 2005 & 2006:
* 1 075 children were murdered in South Africa
* Nearly 24 000 children were raped
* There were 1 378 attempted murders on children.
* 20 879 cases of molestation.
Please join hands on 5 March 2008, and get your colleagues and friends to participate in the 'pink day' campaign by wearing pink and blue.
Send photos of your company's participation to for publication on their .
The top three companies which show the best "pink" turnout will be offered
Free adverts on their sponsors page for a full year.
to read the DA's proposal for saving our children.
Mike Waters
Spread the word!
Let's turn South Africa pink and blue on Wednesday the 5th!
Kind Regards,
Mike Waters MP - DA Spokesperson on child abuse

http://www.lifestylemd.com/index.asp?GoTo=fetch&afid=1&pt=article&itemid=2234&typeid=1

Missing boy's whereabouts still unknown
Anga Anatha Ludidi has no more words to describe the anguish she is feeling - it's 11 days since her 7-year-old son Likho was abducted. "I just want my child back," she said. The little boy was abducted on his way to school in Protea Glen, Soweto, and both police and family have no new leads on the child's whereabouts despite an all-weekend search. Pink Ladies, a non-governmental body which assists in finding missing children around South Africa, yesterday joined the search for the child. - Thandi Skade
Missing baby's remains found
The remains of a 1-year-old infant were found in Ladysmith at the weekend, KwaZulu Natal police said yesterday. The body of Ayanda Nene was found by a farmworker. The baby's mother told police that the child was playing in their yard in Bergville on July 30 when she went missing. A search was launched but Ayanda could not be found. Police then opened a case of kidnapping. Police said a postmortem would be carried out soon and that investigations were continuing. - Sapa


http://www.thestar.co.za/?fArticleId=4566675

09/04/2008 12:51 PM - (SA)
Brothers grieve for stolen pets
SUZELLE FOURIE
TWO brothers from Ysterplaat have travelled over 12 000 kilometres around the Western Cape in search of their missing dogs. They will never give up.
When thieves drove off in William Pretorius's red Mazda Rustler bakkie on 11 March, they were also kidnapping his beloved pets. He has not known a moment's rest since the day Lucy and Shadow disappeared along with his vehicle.
Thousands of posters have been put up in highly visible places from Melkbos to Muizenberg and beyond. The Cape's community radio stations have broadcast details of their quest. Veterinary surgeons and animal welfare are on the lookout and Crime Stop has come on board.
The search has brought forth overwhelming support from all corners. Even The Pink Ladies, a non-profit organisation devoted exclusively to finding missing people, have for the first time joined a search for missing animals.
“We have now gathered a nation of people who are so concerned,” said a distraught William (40), last Thursday evening at the home he shares with his brother Raymond (36). By then he had gone practically without sleep for three weeks.
He is a law enforcement officer of the City of Cape Town and Raymond works as a porter at the Grootte Schuur Hospital. They have devoted every available waking moment to finding their dogs.
The police have recovered his stolen vehicle. It was found stripped and abandoned in the area of the Strand. William went to the Stikland vehicle recovery centre to identify his bakkie and found sand in and outside the vehicle.
“They must have been some?where on a beach or near the sea. It could have been anywhere along the coast.”
He deeply regrets taking the dogs along on that fateful Tuesday when he and Raymond went shopping in Milnerton. They had parked in their usual spot in the parking area behind Shoprite. The dogs were in the back, as always.
“We were inside the shopping centre for less than fifteen minutes. When we came out, they were just gone. I can live with the loss of my vehicle, but not the loss of our friends.”
Shortly after the story first appeared in a daily newspaper, a woman phoned William to say she had seen the whole incident but had not realised at the time what was actually taking place.
“She told me she saw two black men getting out of a silver grey car with tinted windows, walking over to my bakkie, getting in and driving off.
“This is not just a case of missing pets. Their disappearance is part of a crime that has been committed. They were stolen along with my vehicle.”
He suspects trolley guards at the shopping centre of colluding with the criminals.
“My bakkie had been broken into before in that parking area. Nobody noticed anything then. I have been shopping there for years and they knew my vehicle and my dogs.” Now he and Raymond just want their “children” back. Lacy and Shadow are fox terrier/Jack Russell cross-breeds.
. Anyone with information should phone William on 073 003 2969 or 021 511 2210.


http://www.news24.com/Regional_Papers/Components/Category_Article_Text_Template/0,2430,407_2302771~A,00.html

Police search for missing Langa toddler 1/3/2008 2:06:04 PM

Cape Town police are looking for a missing two-year-old Langa boy.

Officers say they suspect the toddler may have been kidnapped by his family's domestic worker.

Police say Owami Ngqenqa's mother, Mandisa, arrived home yesterday afternoon to discover that both her son and the maid had disappeared.

The maid had left a note, saying she took the boy with her.

Missing person organisation "The Pink Ladies" has appealed to anyone with information to come forward.

The investigating officer in the case can be reached on 079 880 9828.



http://www.702.co.za/news/archives.asp?action=search&date=2008.01.03

Kuils River teen still missing

Posted on: 2008-05-02 21:31:11

A Kuils River teenager is still missing after police located her friend whom she was at first believed to have run away with, in Saldanha on Thursday. Nurul Huda Magal, 16, disappeared from her home at a caravan park in Kuils River on Wednesday morning. Crime-fighting body the Pink Ladies initially believed Nurul Huda had run away with her friend Christelle de Jager, 15, and De Jager's boyfriend Chris Bouwer, 22. However, the officer investigating the case said Bouwer and Christelle had been found unharmed in Saldanha. At the time of her disappearance, Nurul Huda was wearing black jeans, black sandals and a brown top. She is about 1.5 metres tall and of average weight, with black hair and a dimple in her chin. IOL

http://www.vocfm.co.za/public/articles.php?Articleid=37370

Court orders not worth much if not enforced
Hanti Otto
August 28 2008 at 11:21AM

If a high court order - or any court order - cannot be executed, it is not worth much. Says lawyer and council member of the Law Society of the Northern Provinces, Johan Gresse: "A court order is only a piece of paper if it is not enforced".

Referring to court orders regarding debt, Gresse said that of the thousands of orders made by courts, no more than 10 percent were successfully concluded.

"Court orders not being adhered to constitute a huge problem, especially because of the current economic situation. It is even a struggle to get orders against the State enforced," Gresse said. However, obtaining a court order was better than doing nothing at all.

'If you don't take the legal route, you must know you are writing off the money owed to you'
"If you don't take the legal route, you must know you are writing off the money owed to you, that you are willingly losing it.

"If you have such a court order, it is effective for the next 30 years. And the amount owed and ordered by the court to be paid, attracts interest, although the interest can never amount to more than the original figure claimed".

Therefore, if one happens to run into the evasive debtor again, the court order can still be enforced.

Gresse said this was also handy if the debtor was declared insolvent. As soon as he obtained employment or money again, the court order could come into action. One could then even get an order attaching some of the person's salary.

"So, if you put in the effort - and money - to obtain a court order, at least you have a bit of a chance to get back what is yours," he said.

'Justice, or a version of it, is most often bought by those with the most money'
Jacqui Thomas, director of the Pink Ladies, who has been in the legal industry for 15 years and worked with women and children victims, said that unfortunately in most cases a court order was the only way to go.

"Without an order, one has no chance. Take for example a protection order - this might be all a woman has to remove an offending party. Without a court order nothing can be done," she said.

However, no order was worth its weight unless all role players did what they could to enforce it, Thomas said.

"Without the ability to properly enforce an order, it is not worth the paper it is written on. Our justice system has failed many in enforcing their human/constitutional and legal rights for time immemorial".

Activist Charlene Smith said there was faith in the justice and courts system, which the honest often found sadly misplaced.

"Justice, or a version of it, is most often bought by those with the most money. The honest and poor or middle class usually can't afford it," she said.

Smith said innocent members of the public had misplaced trust in things like asset forfeiture, protection or maintenance orders, believing that if the orders were not obeyed, the offender would be arrested.

"Fat chance! I have personal experience of this. No court order, whether from the high or magistrate' court, is worth anything without enforcement. And that requires courts to care enough to order it. Also, the cost and red tape and delays are unbelievable, and you need an effective police force to implement it".

Several advocates, who cannot be identified, said the main problem was the lack of steps taken when a court order was not obeyed.

"It is a criminal offence, contempt of a court order. The perpetrators should be prosecuted. Maybe that will send out a message that laws and orders should be obeyed".

· This article was originally published on page 16 of on August 28, 2008

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=&art_id=vn20080828060011659C735735

MISSING LINKS
TONI MANONG GANDRUP VANG re-united with her father after 39 years
Contact: 079 778 2016
ZINIA MACEDU – still looking for her family
Contact: 079 460 9445
JACKIE with The Pink Ladies missing person's agency
072 214 7439/8

SAfm

Meisie (15) van Orania steeds vermis
Apr 09 2008 11:52:39:463PM - (SA)
Karen Ebersohn

DIE soektog na die vermiste tienermeisie, Chantelyn Janse van Rensburg (15), van Orania is gister aansienlik verskerp.
Chantelyn het Sondagoggend in Pretoria op 'n SA Roadlink-bus na Hopetown geklim nadat sy die skoolvakansie by haar ma op 'n plaas naby Nylstroom gekuier het.
Haar ma, mev. Elsabe Steenberg, het haar Sondag na Pretoria gebring waar sy per bus na Hopetown (naby Orania) vertrek het.
Chantelyn se pa, mnr. Koos Janse van Rensburg, het op Hopetown vir haar gewag. Met die aankoms van die bus om 21:00 hier, was Chantelyn nie daarop nie. Niemand het haar weer gesien of iets van haar gehoor nie.
Die busbestuurder het aan Janse van Rensburg gesê Chantelyn het in Johannesburg by Parkstasie afgeklim. Sy het vir die busbestuurder gesê haar pa en haar boetie kry haar daar.
Mnr. Janse van Rensburg het gister gesê Chantelyn se verdwyning is reeds by die organisasie Missing Children in Johannesburg aangemeld.
'n Foto en inligting van Chantelyn is ook op verskeie webbladsye versprei.
Mev. Melinda Janse van Rensburg, sy vrou, het gesê die nie-regeringsorganisasie Pink Ladies is ook by die soektog betrokke.
Luidens 'n verklaring van Pink Ladies het dié organisasie verlede jaar ná die verdwyning van Sheldean Human (7) ontstaan.
Sheldean se lyk is verlede jaar 15 dae nadat sy op 18 Februarie voor haar huis in Pretoria-Tuine verdwyn het, in 'n stormwatersloot gevind.
“Pink Ladies bestaan uit 'n groep, meestal vroue, wat emosionele ondersteuning aan gesinne gee wat kinders vermis. Die groep help ook met die fisieke soektog na vermiste kinders.”
Luidens die verklaring bestaan die groep uit vrywillige werkers wat uit die liefde vir kinders help om vermiste kinders te vind.
Insp. Johann Billio, polisiewoordvoerder, het gister gesê daar is nog geen tyding van Chantelyn nie.
Volksblad het ook verneem dat die poging om haar op te spoor deur middel van haar selfoon nie suksesvol was nie.
Mnr. Janse van Rensburg het gesê dit is 'n moeilike tyd vir die familie, maar hulle glo daar sal antwoorde kom.
Enigiemand met inligting kan insp. Johann Billio by 053-203-7200 of mnr. Koos Janse van Rensburg by 083-433-8185 bel.


http://www.news24.com/Die_Volksblad/Nuus/0,,5-83_2303198,00.html

Gisteraand by Hansie en Marisa Horn in Pretoria Tuine gaan kuier.

 Dankie julle! Laasgenoemde veral is nou betrokke by , ‘n Seksie 21 (m.a.w. nie-winsgewende) maatskappy wat deur vrywillige barmhartige smaritane bestuur word. Boere, hierdie mense verrig ‘n buitengewoon belangrike rol en het dringend ons ondersteuning nodig. Marisa deel met my hoe The Pink Ladies byvoorbeeld vir Elize (Sheldean Human se ma) help deur haar ongelooflike hartverskeurende tyd (hul beplan om eersdaags ‘n CD ter nagedagtenis vry te stel). Ek luister ook hoe ongeveer 3000 mense op landgoed naby Elandspoort krimpeer weens die Tshwane-metroraad se hardegat houding teenoor minderbevoorregte Suid-Afrikaners, deur om hul water- en elektrisiteit summier af te sny. Hierdie mense, mense nes ek en jy, moet sien-en-kom-klaar met gas-aangedrewe toerusting wat deur goedhartige borge geskenk is. My misnoë met die Tshwane-metroraad is teen die tyd meer niks nuut vir Daaglikse Dosis lesers nie, maar, in plaas daarvan dat hul ‘n slag probeer mèèr tegemoedkomend optree en die foute van hul weë (soos ons almal maar erken) besef, word ek net al hoe kwaaier vir hierdie stad se munisipaliteit. Marisa (en Die Pink Dames-bende), jul het my ondersteuning. Ek loods dus vandag my Daaglikse Dosis Fondsinsameling, omdat ek voel ons ‘n saak het. Ek gaan met jou hulp geld insamel en komberse en kos ensovoorts met die geld vir miderbevoorregte mense koop en aanry. Maar meer hieroor later. As die Tshwane-metroraad dan nie hul plig wil nakom en vir hul inwoners sorg nie, sal ek en ander mense dit maar sonder hul doen. Solank die raad net onthou dat hul sal moet verduidelik waarom hullle hul plig versuim het.Â


http://www.daagliksedosis.co.za/blog/?p=2319

Nóg 'n jong vrou soek
Jul 13 2008 11:03 PM
Jana Engelbrecht

RITCHIE. – 'n Jong vrou hier het spoorloos verdwyn nadat sy na bewering 'n 27-jarige man op die selfoon-kletskamer MXit ontmoet het.
Me. Jeanetta Swanepoel (21) het Vrydag omstreeks 07:15 uit haar ouerhuis op Ritchie verdwyn.
Mnr. David Swanepoel (42), haar pa, het gister desperaat gepleit dat sy moet huis toe kom.
“Ons is lief vir haar. Ons is baie naby aan mekaar en ek wil net weet waar sy is.”
Hy het sy dogter as 'n stil, verantwoordelike introvert beskryf.
Sy studeer van die huis kleinsakebestuur deur Intec-kollege en het net drie vakke oor om klaar te maak.
“Ek het Vrydag om 07:15 die voordeur hoor oopgaan en gaan kyk of Jeanetta al wakker is, maar sy was nie in haar kamer nie. Ons sou die dag Kimberley toe kom. Ek het onmiddellik besef iets groot is fout en in my motor gespring.
“Ek het Modderrivier toe gejaag, maar sy was nêrens langs die pad nie.”
Hy sê hy vermoed “iemand op Richie” moes sy dogter opgelaai en Kimberley toe gebring het. Hy het voetspore buite hul huis opgemerk wat reg buite die tuinhekkie stop.
“Ek dink sy het dalk die nag in 'n hotel in Kimberley geslaap en toe met 'n bus Pretoria toe gery.
“Sy het in Maart vanjaar vertel dat sy met 'n ou wat sy op MXit ontmoet het, genaamd Chris, deurmekaar is. Ek het haar nog gesê sy weet nie eens of hy getroud is of nie.”
David sê sy dogter se selfoon het glo kort na dié gesprek “weggeraak” en hy was onder die indruk die verhouding met Chris is verby.
“My selfoon het ook kort daarna weggeraak. Ek het baie met haar op MXit gepraat, omdat dit so goedkoop was. Ek dink sy het dalk my foon gevat omdat sy bang was ek sien sy praat nog met dié Chris.”
Jeanetta se ma, mev. Jean Swanepoel, het gister gesê haar dogter se ID-dokument, rybewys en kwalifikasies is weg.
“Verder is alles net so gelos. Sy het nie eens haar tandeborsel by haar nie.”
Jean het gesê sy het 'n baie oop verhouding met haar dogter.
Jeanetta het volgens haar R1 000 kontant by haar.
“Sy hoef nie bang te wees nie, ons is nie vir haar kwaad nie. Ons is baie lief vir haar en mis haar baie. Mens weet nooit of iemand dalk jou kind dwelms ingee nie,” het mev. Swanepoel gesê.
Mnr. Desmond Olivier, 'n private speurder van Pretoria wat saam met die polisie werk om Jeanetta op te spoor, het gister gesê 'n selfoonsein van Jeanetta se selfoon is Saterdag in Pretoria opgetel.
“Jeanetta het sonder enige kennisgewing weggeraak. Dit maak dit verdag. Dié Chris kan ook dalk vir ons inligting gee.”
Mnr. Swanepoel het bevestig 'n selfoonsein is gistermiddag weer in Pretoria opgevang.
“Dit wil voorkom asof sy dié Chris probeer bel. Dit laat my dink dat sy nog nie by hom is nie. Waar is sy dan?”
Enigiemand met inligting kan Olivier by 082-449-0511, die Pink Ladies by 072-214-7439 of die polisie by 10111 bel.
Volksblad

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Submitted by MyRondebosch on Tue, 29/07/2008 - 09:38.
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Cape Talk Eyewitness News reports that a 9-year-old girl who was missing for over two days has been found alive.
Natalie Davids was discovered in Mitchell's Plain at a friend's house yesterday.
She went missing on Friday in Muizenberg.
NGO "the pink ladies" assisted authorities in the search for the girl.
The organisation's Dessie Rechner says it appears there was a misunderstanding, as the girl upped and left for Mitchell's Plain with a friend's mother.

http://www.myrondebosch.co.za/node?page=14

Soektog na driejarige uitgebrei
JACKIE PIENAAR-BRINK
12/11/2008 11:55:35 PM - (SA)

Stellenbosch. - Die soektog na die driejarige seuntjie wat Saterdag hier in Kayamandi vermis geraak het, het nog niks opgelewer nie.
Die Pink Ladies – 'n landwye groep vrywilligers wat ten doel het om vermiste kinders met hul families te herenig – het nou ook by die soektog betrokke geraak.
'n Organiseerder, wat net as Dessie bekend wil staan omdat hul­le anoniem werk, het gesê hul­le het onmiddellik aan die werk gespring toe hulle teen Dinsdag van Oyama Dludla se verdwyning verneem het. 'n Pamflet met sy kleurfoto is saamgestel en duisende is reeds elektronies en per faks versprei, ook aan polisiekantore. Sy is ook in deurlopende kontak met radiostasies.
Dessie glo daar is 'n kans dat 'n barmhartige Samaritaan die kind na 'n huis in 'n ander gebied geneem het of dat hy iewers by 'n polisiekantoor in 'n ander gebied is.
Normaalweg sal 'n lid van hul organisasie saam met die polisie in die gebied soek waar 'n kind vermis geraak het. Omdat hulle in hierdie geval eers in 'n laat stadium van die verdwyning verneem het en die polisie Kayamandi reeds deurgesoek het, teiken hulle nou plekke soos Kraaifontein, Philippi, Strandfontein, Mitchells Plain, Nyanga, Khayelitsha en Lwandle.
Die polisie het intussen die moontlikheid uitgeskakel dat Oya­ma by 'n jong vrou is saam met wie hy die naweek in Kayamandi opgemerk is.
Die polisie het die vrou opgespoor, maar volgens haar het sy die kleuter alleen gelaat nadat hy gesê het hy is op pad huis toe.
Die polisiesoektog self gaan uitgebrei word.
“Ons is tevrede dat ons van huis tot huis gegaan het in die hele Ka­yamandi,” het dir. Dirk Mentoor, stasiekommissaris van die Stellenbosch-polisie, gesê.
Die plan is nou om op gebiede soos Bloekombos, Lwandle, Kha­yelitsha en Macassar te konsentreer.
Oyama het Saterdagoggend tussen 08:00 en 10:00 in die informele nedersetting Nkanini in Kayamandi verdwyn.
Enigiemand met inligting kan speurkonst. Stephen Adams by 021 809 9140 of 079 854 2680 bel.


http://www.dieburger.com/Stories/News/18.0.1071098708.aspx

Dit is "cool" om die 5e PIENK te dra!!

Join the PINK LADIES in silent protest against the deaths of Sheldean Human, Annestacia Wiese and the thousands of other children that are victims of crime and abuse in this country.
According to the latest police statistics on child victims of crime, it is reported that between 2005 to 2006:
• 1 075 children were murdered in South Africa
• Nearly 24 000 children were raped
• There were 1 378 attempted murders on children.
• 20 879 cases of molestation.
Please join hands on 5 March 2008, and get your colleagues and friends to participate in the ‘pink day' campaign by wearing pink and blue .
Send photos of your companies participation to for publication on their website.

http://www.bosparra.com/?p=2228

Sheldean: Jordaan skuldig
HILDA FOURIE en SAPA03/06/2008 01:22:23 PM - (SA)

Andrew Jordaan is Dinsdag in die Pretoriase hooggeregshof skuldig bevind aan die moord op die sewejarige Sheldean Human.
Waarnemende regter Chris Eksteen het ná 'n lang uitspraak vir Jordaan ook skuldig bevind aan menseroof, poging tot verkragting, verkragting (van 'n maatjie van Sheldean), onsedelike aanranding en die besit van dagga.
Die lang uitspraak in die Sheldean Human-saak het omstreeks 10:00 begin.
Eksteen het vir die eerste uur die getuienis in die saak opgesom.
Jordaan se ouers, asook Sheldean se ouers, was in die hof om na die uitspraak te luister.
'n Anti-kindermishandelinggroep, die Pink Ladies, was ook by die hof om te betoog.
Hy het glo haar lyk, sonder haar broekie en T-hempie, in 'n mangat gegooi.
Die trane het oor Jordaan, van Pretoria-Wes, se wange gerol toe hy dié mangat meer as twee weke ná Sheldean se verdwyning aan die polisie uitgewys het. Hy het ook sekere erkennings aan die polisie gemaak wat deur die hof as bewysstukke toegelaat is.
Me. Mariana Kriel, projekbestuurder van Solidariteit se Helpende Hand-fonds, het gesê die Sheldean-moord het Suid-Afrika se mense geruk, maar bygevoeg dat mense moet onthou dat haar geval nie uniek is nie.
Dié fonds het vanoggend voor Eksteen se uitspraak 'n betoging voor die hof gehou om vir die maksimum straf in dié en ander sake waar misdade teen kinders gepleeg is, te pleit.
“Die mishandeling van kinders kan nie meer ontken word nie,” het Kriel gesê.
“Die Sheldean-saak behoort 'n keerpunt te wees om kinderbeskerming te bevorder.
“Ons hoop dat die betoging druk op die owerhede sal plaas om in die belang van mishandelde kinders van oor Suid-Afrika te beslis.
“Ons vra die staat om regverdige en korrekte besluite te neem om dié hoofstuk af te sluit en geregtigheid in die Sheldean-saak en dié van derduisende ander mishandelde kinders te laat geskied.”

http://www.dieburger.com/Stories/News/17.0.514937179.aspx

Sol-Tech se studentediensburo het op 5 Maart pienk rompies aangetrek ter ondersteuning van die Nasionale Dag vir Vermiste Kinders. Die Demokratiese Alliansie (DA) en die Pink Ladies het ? stilswyende protes gehou teen die dood van Sheldean Human, Annestacia Wiese en duisende ander kinderslagoffers van misdaad en mishandeling.

Friday, May 02, 2008
Two Kuilsriver girls missing
By Henry Booysen
02 May 2008

The police in conjunction with the pink ladies are desperately searching for Christelle de Jager and Mur'ul'huda Maga both from Kuilsriver who went missing on the 30th of March.

Christelle de Jager is a 15 year old white female she is 1.5m in height has slender body, blue eyes and long blond curly hair. Mur'ul'huda Magal is a 16 year old dark Muslim female she is 1.5m in height has light brown eyes, thin lips and long black hair with red highlights.

It is believed that Mur'ul'huda and Christelle are together as both of them went missing in the early hours of 30 April 2008. Christelle was seen in the vicinities of Total Garage in Kuilsriver, Formula 1 hotel in Parow and a Caravan Park in Bellville. She was last seen wearing a black fleecy top, black jeans and pink shoes, while Mur'ul'huda was last seen wearing black jeans, black sandals and a brown top.

Authorities believe that the two girls are with Chris Bouwer who resides at a caravan park in Eersteriver.

http://bushradionews.blogspot.com/2008/05/two-kuilsriver-girls-missing.html

Sunday, April 27, 2008
16-year-old school girl goes missing, again
By Ilhaam Hoosain
27 April 2008

Fezekile Teka, a 16-year-old school girl, went missing for the first time on the 7 March 2008, but was then found on 22 March 2008. She has now gone missing for the second time since 7 April 2008.

Fifi or Fezi as she is commonly known, is believed to have been last seen in Sunnyside, Pretoria and it is also believed that she was in the Benoni area.

The young girl has brown hair and eyes, she is of medium height and weighs approximately 50kgs.

“She was last seen in a faded blue jeans, white top, jean jacket and black suede shoes. Her hair is in a curly pony tail.

“Fezi can be noticed with a scar on the left side of her nose,” says Dessie from the Pink Ladies.

The Pink Ladies urges anyone with information to please call them on 072 214 7439 or the Investigating Officer on 011 724 1056 .


http://bushradionews.blogspot.com/2008/04/16-year-old-school-girl-goes-missing.html

In Silent Protest…
Wed, 05/03/2008 - 07:30

Today the DA is joining the Pink Ladies in silent protest against the deaths of Sheldean Human, Annestacia Wiese and the thousands of other children that are victims of crime and abuse in this country.
This time last year, the body of Sheldean Human's body was found in Pretoria. She was age 7, and had been raped and murdered.
At the time of her death, she was wearing a pink top and jeans.
That same week, the country was again shocked to hear that 11-year-old Annestacia Wiese, also dressed in a pink top and jeans, was raped and murdered in Mitchells Plain.
So who are the Pink Ladies?
On the night of March 5, when Sheldean's body was found, a group of people involved in the search for the girl founded the Pink Ladies.
Since then, the Pink Ladies has been involved in about 104 missing person cases with a recovery rate of 90 percent.
Today, the DA and businesses across South Africa are commemorating the ‘Pink Ladies National Missing Children's Day', by wearing Pink.
“While symbolic gestures are important for raising awareness, the government should be doing much more to protect our children,” said DA spokesperson on child abuse Mike Waters.
“The abduction of children happens in South Africa on a scale seen in few other places in the world, yet we are hopelessly under-prepared to find children once they go missing. The case of Madeleine McCann shows how far our country still has to go in gearing up to find missing children. The massive awareness campaign has caught the attention of millions of people across the world, using every possible avenue to transmit information,'” he said.
Waters said that South Africa needs to adapt itself to being able to stage similar campaigns, such as sms and photo link-ups, radio alerts and schemes similar to Code Adam in America, which creates a way of instantly galvanizing people in the immediate vicinity of a reported abduction.
Each year, 1 075 children are murdered in South Africa, nearly 24 000 children are raped, and there are 20 879 cases of molestation.
Surely, this is cause for major concern and action?

http://www.eyeoncrime.co.za/?q=node/319