Woman allegedly kidnapped at grandmother’s funeral

The victim, whose name is known to Lowvelder, lives in Gauteng but was in town for a family member’s funeral when she was allegedly kidnapped last Sunday.

A woman who was allegedly kidnapped and assaulted claimed she had to wait several hours before the local police assisted her to open a case against her attacker.

“I arrived in the Lowveld on the Friday, as it was my grandmother’s funeral on Sunday. On my arrival here I found out that my younger half-sister had been missing for two weeks.”

She said that she had no idea where her half-sister was but that a family member started phoning her with accusations that the child was with her, and that she knew the whereabouts of the girl.

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“I explained to him that I have not spoken to her in a while, and that I really did not know where she was.” She claims that this same man then arrived at the funeral and abducted her.

“He grabbed me and dragged me to his car, where he threw me into the trunk and then took me to a house in KaBokweni.”

She tearfully added that on their arrival at the house, she was repeatedly assaulted by the man and some of his friends. “They kept hitting me and asking where my half-sister is.”

She was then allegedly tied up next to a dog in the courtyard. “I managed to escape and went to the closest police station, that was KaBokweni, to report the attack.”

She alleged that even though she was visibly battered and starting to bruise, nobody at the police station would initially assist her. “I managed to get hold of my family, who by that time were frantic with worry for me and they came to the police station to help me.”

She claimed that it was only hours later that she managed to successfully open a case against her attacker.
Col Donald Mdluli, police spokesperson, said the case number given correlated with a case of theft, but said that he would investigate.