THE PAIN OF TRAFFICKING

ON THE 28th year anniversary of the disappearance of Matthew Ohlsson, who vanished from outside of his home in Mitchells Plain, his mother has this week shed light on her fears that he might have been trafficked.

- BY GENEVIEVE SERRA

Nearly three decades later, Michelle Ohlsson, an author, mother, grandmother and founder of Concerned Parents of Missing Children, shares how she grew to understand how others dealt with loss and feared that her son might have fallen victim to human trafficking.

The Westville Primary School learner disappeared on the morning of 24 March 1997, while collecting the refuse bin outside of his Westridge home.