A quarter button and ‘sakkie’ tik while Joslin Smith vanished into the night

 A quarter button and ‘sakkie’ tik while Joslin Smith vanished into the night

The one and only window of Racquel “Kelly” Smith’s rickety shack provides a glimpse of Saldanha’s Middelpos informal settlement, where poverty reigns and her six-year-old daughter Joslin vanished like a needle in a haystack three weeks ago on 19 February. When Kelly arrived back home from a domestic odd job at 5pm on the fateful…...

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