CAPE TOWN - It’s been just over a week since Kelly Smith, Jacquen Appollis and Steveno Van Rhyn were sentenced to life behind ...

IOL Reporter In a case that has gripped the nation and left a community in perpetual mourning, the search for six-year-old Joshlin Smith shows no signs of abating. Despite the recent sentencing of ...

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

The sentencing follows an intense eight-week trial during which the court heard devastating details surrounding the girl’s ...

A shocking case out of South Africa has put the issue of human trafficking front and center, a reminder of the urgent need for systemic changes to prevent such abominable crimes. Racquel "Kelly" Smith ...

In a deeply unsettling case that has gripped South Africa, Racquel “Kelly” Smith and two accomplices have been sentenced on ...

A South African woman, Racquel “Kelly” Smith, 34, along with her boyfriend, Jacquen Appollis, and friend, Steveno van Rhyn, ...

A South African court on Thursday sentenced a woman to life in prison for kidnapping and selling her six-year-old daughter, ...

ShareA South African woman convicted of kidnapping and trafficking her six-year-old daughter has been sentenced to life in ...

Joshlin Smith went missing in February last year when she was just six-years-old, sparking a desperate nationwide manhunt to ...

Kelly Smith, the mother of Joshlin Smith, attends her sentencing at the Western Cape High Court in Saldanha Bay, South Africa ...

The girl, Joshlin Smith, is still missing, and the case has haunted South Africa. Prosecutors said that the mother was ...