There's growing alarm at the number of kidnappings being reported in South Africa. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)

Holding people for ransom has become increasingly lucrative against a backdrop of economic hardship and political turmoil and with the police struggling to get a grip many South Africans are living in fear of abduction

Reported by Jamal Osman. Produced by Freddie Gower. Edited by Sophie LarkinTannett.


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