Western Cape police searched an area in the Middelpos informal settlement in Saldanha Bay on Friday afternoon chasing leads ...

Kelly Smith, Jacquin Appollis and Steveno van Rhyn will appear in court in August 2025, three months after they were ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A South African woman was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for selling her 6-year-old daughter. Kelly Smith was sentenced by a judge alongside two others, her ...

Kelly Smith, the mother of missing Joshlin Smith, appears in court in Vredenburg, South Africa, Thursday, March 7, 2024. Credit: AP ...

A mom who sold her 6-year-old daughter so her skin and eyes could be cut out and used by a “traditional healer” had been sentenced to life in prison in South Africa. Racquel “Kelly” Smith ...

Kelly Smith and two others involved in Joshlin Smith's 2024 disappearance were convicted on kidnapping and trafficking charges on Friday. ... A 6-year-old girl went missing in South Africa last year; ...

South African mother Racquel "Kelly" Smith (R) w got life in prison Thursday for selling her daughter Joshlin for $1,100. She, her boyfriend and a friend of the couple were all convicted for ...

The mother of a South African girl, who disappeared aged six more than a year ago, has been convicted of kidnapping and trafficking her daughter. Kelly Smith, her boyfriend Jacquen Appollis and ...

In powerful closing arguments on Tuesday, Senior State Advocate Zelda Swanepoel described the Joshlin Smith case as unlike any South Africa has seen before, a heartbreaking story where the victim ...

The trial of six-year-old Joshlin Smith, missing since February 2024, represents a critical turning point in South Africa's approach to child trafficking. As the state presents its case, the ...