With human trafficking protests flaring up across the country on Wednesday, we look at the official SAPS list of ‘kidnapping hotspots’ in South Africa.

Tensions amongst parents and caregivers have escalated in Cape Town this week, after a Grade R pupil was allegedly targeted in an abduction plot.

The incident in which a man tried to grab a four-year-old girl from a pizza shop in Florida, is not a case of human trafficking, police say.

A 24-year-old man, who allegedly tried to abduct a child at a Florida restaurant, was arrested shortly after the incident on Thursday.

Investigations revealed that the two women were planning to take the newborn baby to Gauteng.

Four men accused of kidnapping Durban businesswoman Sandra Moonsamy in May 2019 are expected back in court on Tuesday.

A youth who allegedly posed as a social worker and abducted two-month-old Kwahlelo Tiwane, claims she can prove her innocence.

A two-month-old baby and one of two twin boys has allegedly been abducted by a woman posing as a social worker in Parow Cape Town.

A good Samaritan that stumbled onto the story of a Cape Town teacher that was raped in a taxi has offered her self-defence classes.