“A day before green-eyed Joshlin Smith went missing, her mother confided in a friend that she had sold her daughter to a sangoma for R20,000”.Former co-accused turned state witness Lourentia Lombaard dropped this bombshell during her evidence-in-chief on Friday in the high court in Saldanha Bay.
Lombard, also known as Renz, was arrested last year with Racquel “Kelly” Smith, Smith’s boyfriend Jacquin “Boeta” Appollis and their friend Steveno van Rhyn. However, she later turned state witness.
The remaining three accused pleaded not guilty to charges of kidnapping and human trafficking.
“I went around to Kelly and Jacquin and I heard her say to him, ‘Boeta, hier is die geld wat die sangoma gegee het [here is the money the sangoma gave],” after which he asked how much and she said R20,000.
Lombaard said Van Rhyn was outside the shack. She knocked on the door and asked what was happening.
