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Activist demands jail time for pivotal witness in Joshlin Smith case

Cape Argus

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August 14, 2025

ANTI-GENDER-BASED violence activist June Dolley Major said the woman who turned State witness in the case of missing Saldanha Bay girl Joshlin Smith, should have served time in prison.

- MANDILAKHE TSHWETE

Her comments come after Lourentia “Renz” Lombaard was granted full immunity from prosecution by Western Cape High Court Judge Nathan Erasmus yesterday.

Lombaard was arrested in March last year alongside Joshlin's mother, Racquel "Kelly" Smith, Jacquen "Boeta" Appollis, and Steveno van Rhyn, and she turned State witness.

All three were convicted of kidnapping and human trafficking and are serving life sentences.

Judge Erasmus found that Lombaard had provided “key evidence” and testified “honestly and frankly” in her Section 204 statement.

But Dolley Major, speaking outside the court, said she believed any crime involving a child warranted some form of punishment.

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