Joshlin would be celebrating her eighth birthday in October 2025, but her whereabouts remain unknown. With the search for Joshlin Smith continuing, authorities are vowing not to rest until they ...

Joshlin Smith's mother, Racquel 'Kelly' Smith, reported her missing at the Saldanha police station on 20 February 2024. She was wearing a light blue T-shirt and denim shorts.

Racquel "Kelly" Smith, the mother of 6-year-old Joshlin Smith, has been sentenced to life in prison alongside two other men in connection with the trafficking of her child Jacquen Appollis and ...

Joshlin vanished from outside her home in Saldanha Bay, near Cape Town, in February 2024. Smith claimed she left her child with her boyfriend when she went missing. A desperate, highly-publicised ...

One witness told a court Kelly Smith said she sold her daughter to a sangoma, a traditional healer, for 20,000 rand and that the girl was wanted for her "eyes and skin".

Joshlin Smith's mother, branded the "mastermind" in her child's disappearance, is to be sentenced.

The judge noted that it took Smith five months to register Joshlin's birth - by law this must be done within 30 days - and had lived intermittently at a shelter for abused women.

Joshlin Smith's mother, Racquel "Kelly" Smith, along with her co-accused, Jacquen "Boeta" Appollis and Steveno van Rhyn were found guilty.

Sentencing proceedings in the Joshlin Smith case are set down for Tuesday and Wednesday this week before Judge Nathan Erasmus is due to hand down the sentences for Racquel Smith, Jacquen Appollis ...

The sentencing proceedings for Racquel Smith, Jacquen Appollis and Steveno van Rhyn, convicted of human trafficking and of kidnapping Joshlin Smith, will be held from 27 to 29 May 2025.

Joshlin's mother, Kelly Smith, her boyfriend Apppollis, and his friend Van Rhyn were arrested and charged with kidnapping and human trafficking related to the child's disappearance in March last year.