IOL News [South
Africa]
18 March 2014
By Sapa
Johannesburg -
Restaurant group Spur has denied allegations relating to a text message doing
the rounds that a suspicious woman allegedly preying on young children on the
West Rand asked a worker to throw a child over a wall for R2 000. […]
IOL News [South
Africa]
18 March 2014
By MPILETSO MOTUMI
Johannesburg - West
Rand residents have been sending out warning messages on social media to alert
each other of a possible kidnapper in their midst.
An incident last
Thursday sparked numerous allegations about a woman who might be preying on
young children.
According to
online posts by concerned residents, the woman is believed to have been spotted
at two schools and two restaurants on the West Rand. […]
The Citizen [Johannesburg,
South Africa]
14 November 2015
Gopolang Chawane
A persisting urban
legend about children being abducted from Spu [sic] playing areas has the
restaurant chain at its wits end.
Chief operating
officer Mark Farrelly said these stories were untrue, groundless and
mischievous.
“We have heard
this rumour before. But just as it surfaced years ago without grounds, it
remains groundless.”
Reports about
several apparent abduction attempts in and around Pretoria the past few weeks
appear to have sparked a repeat of the rumour about the so-called Spur
abductions.
Some users of
social media have gone as far as suggesting that waiters at the Spur are
actually being paid to distract patrons while their children are being
abducted. […]