Red flags? Jayden-Lee Meek's mother has been compared to Kelly Smith, the mother of missing Saldanha Bay girl, Joslin ...

It was shown during a hearing in Saldanha Bay, near Cape Town, ahead of the sentencing of Joshlin's mother - a drug addict who is believed to have sold her for money.

The NPA has revealed exactly why it believes that Joslin Smith is alive after disappearing from her Saldanha Bay home more than a year ago.

A woman testified during the trial that Smith had told her she and the two men had sold Joshlin for around $1,000 to a traditional healer who wanted the child for her body parts.

Joshlin Smith went missing in February last year from her home in Saldanha Bay, a fishing town 85 miles north of Cape Town, and has never been found.

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 ...

A court official read out those statements first in Afrikaans, the language spoken by those in the impoverished Middelpos informal settlement of Saldanha Bay, where Joshlin had lived.

Community members rallied around her and volunteered to help police search for Joshlin in the sand dunes near their poor neighborhood of shacks close to Saldanha Bay, around 120 kilometers (75 ...

SALDANHA BAY, South Africa (AFP) — A South African court on Thursday sentenced a woman to life in prison for kidnapping and selling her 6-year-old daughter, in a case that horrified the country.