Child abduction
Society has civic duty to protect children, says Gauteng Social Dev MEC
This comes after an attempted kidnapping of a four-year-old girl at a restaurant in Roodepoort.
A parent in Lentegeur says communities and the government are failing children after a child was robbed, assaulted and drugged in the area.
The suspect charged the boy's parents thousands of rands a month for them to attend the academy with the highest fee being around R15,000.
The children have allegedly been living in dire conditions and have been paying monthly fees of up to R3,500 to attend the academy.
Police say the woman was found hiding the baby in a bag carrying tomatoes and onions.
The minister was speaking on the side-lines of a memorial service held at the Rippon Primary School in KwaZulu-Natal where slain nine-year-old Miguel Louw was in grade four.
The police minister was speaking at the Rippon Primary School in Sydenham where slain nine-year-old boy Miguel Louw was in grade 4.
The victims, some of whom were as young as 10, were from several African countries including Chad, DR Congo, Eritrea and Niger.
There have been at least 13 cases of child abductions and attempted kidnappings in communities across the city since last month.
The Western Cape Education Department has vowed to treat this matter with urgency and work closely with the SAPS to find out who is behind these crimes.
Sizwe Kupelo of the Eastern Cape premier's office says authorities are probing a number of possible trafficking cases in the province following several kidnappings.
The Western Cape Education Department has received six reports of attempted abductions over the past two days.
The girl reported that two men driving a white Toyota Yaris with tinted windows tried to lure her but she managed to get away.
The little boy's body was discovered along the N2 highway near Philippi last week, just days after he'd been abducted from his family home.
In the most the most recent incident, a girl was almost snatched in Kensington when a suspect tried to lure the child into their car.
This is the latest in a series of similar incidents in the city in recent weeks.