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  • South Africa 'white slave' mystery

    05/20/2003 4:31:49 PM PDT · by Tailgunner Joe · 9 replies · 434+ views
    BBC ^ | 20 May, 2003
    Police are seeking the parents of an 18-year-old white South African boy, who says he has spent six years as the slave of a black family. The boy, known as "Happy Sidane" can only speak the Ndebele language but told police that his parents were Afrikaans-speakers. He said that he was given to a black family by a domestic worker employed by his parents when he was aged six. "We are treating this as a kidnapping case," police spokesman Percy Morokane told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme. He said that "a lot" of people had already contacted the police...