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Kidnapped Amy-Lee back home

The South African Police Service has confirmed that Amy-Lee de Jager, who was reportedly kidnapped at her school on Monday morning, has been found.

The six-year-old was reported kidnapped after four men allegedly snatched her from her mother at the Kollege Park Primary School in Vanderbijlpark.

“Amy was found this morning and she is undergoing a medical examination at a local hospital,” said police spokesperson Vishnu Naidoo in a statement.

He said an investigation into her disappearance and sudden reappearance is still ongoing.

“It is our appeal that this investigation be allowed to take its course,” he said. – SAnews.gov.za

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Museum Africa: The Memory of the Market

Long before it was a sanctuary for artifacts, this building was the Johannesburg Municipal Fruit and Vegetable Market, completed in 1913. At the time, it was an architectural marvel of the industrial age, featuring a massive, vaulted roof supported by reinforced concrete and steel—a design intended to keep the produce cool in the biting Highveld sun. The site was chosen for its proximity to the railway lines, allowing fresh goods from across Southern Africa to be funneled directly into the heart of the city. For decades, it was a place of frantic, multi-racial commerce where the air was thick with the smell of citrus and the shouts of auctioneers. In 1994—the same year South Africa held its first democratic elections—the market was transformed into Museum Africa, symbolically turning a site of physical sustenance into one of intellectual and historical nourishment.