Mother's 36-year search for kidnapped daughter continues

AS THE Easter weekend has passed, the 75-year-old mother of Veronique Adams continues to hold onto hope of finding her kidnapped twin daughter who was taken during the Easter period in 1989 by her nanny in Eldorado Park, Gauteng.

- GENEVIEVE SERRA

Junice Adams together with her daughter, Veronisha, now 37, who is Veronique's twin, continues the nationwide search for her long lost daughter, even utilising the help of local missing persons organisations such as Track n Trace and Missing Children SA.

It has been 36 years since Veronique was snatched by her nanny, only identified as Beauty Mkwanazi, on March 6, 1989, while Adams was at work.

The twins were 11 months old at the time and their sister, five, and was in the woman's care. The alarm was raised by Adams's brother, who had visited the residence, which he did daily, and found that Veronique was missing. The search for the little baby then begun. Adams said school children had seen the woman walking with the baby but that she had been told by police to wait 24 hours before a missing persons case could be registered.