Abducted Gauteng learner returns home safely.

The Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi is delighted that the Grade 5 11-year-old girl learner from E. P. Baumann Primary School in Mayfair who was kidnapped last year returned safely today on Wednesday, 5 January 2022.

According to information at our disposal, the learner’s mother received a call from the police this morning informing her to come fetch her child at the police station. 

The 11-year-old girl learner was kidnapped at gunpoint on the morning of 17 November 2021. This happened outside the school gate while she was waiting in line to be sanitized and screened.

 

“We are delighted to receive this good news of the safe return of this girl learner. We will avail our Psycho-Social Unit to provide additional counselling to her given the trauma she has faced during this unfortunate incident,” Gauteng MEC for Education, Mr Panyaza Lesufi said.