Mzoli's daughter knew her two kidnap suspects

By Odette Ismail
15 December 2006

The two suspect’s involved in the kidnapping of Gugulethu restaurateur Mzoli Ngcawuzele’s daughter is apparently known to the family.

Police arrested two men and two women yesterday after Sisanda Ngcawuzele was found in a flat in the Table View suburb of Parklands. According to reports, she was found with her hands and feet tied.

It is believed that one of the suspects works at radio station Heart 104.9. A friend of the radio station employee says that the woman is 23-years-old. She was not an on-air personality.

The friend said she started out at the station as an intern, and worked her way up to an account executive position. The woman has since been relieved of her duties at the station, pending the outcome of the investigation. The other one works at a bank.

Ngcawuzele told the Cape Argus that he knows the women arrested, as they visited his restaurant. He says he received two phone calls for the ransom money of R300 000, but they were from men.

Ngcawuzele received trauma counselling and has been treated for dehydration.