Immigration driving kidnapping in SA

Immigration driving kidnapping in SA

Police Minister Senzo Mchunu says immigration challenges are driving kidnappings in South Africa. 

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This follows the arrest of a Pakistani, Zimbabwean, and Mozambican believed to be linked to the kidnapping of nine-year-old Emaan Fatima Ghumman in the Eastern Cape. 


She was released on Wednesday. 


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Mchunu says authorities are intensifying efforts to combat such crimes.


"Generally, things point at foreigners because most of these kidnappings they inevitably involve a foreigner, which means that it is correct to say that in South Africa one of the most threatening things to stability in the country is immigration."


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