Moti to leave

IT IS A PITY that Nazim Moti has stopped his sons from speaking to the police. But you can’t blame him.

Moti’s four sons were on their way to school in October last year when armed men snatched them. For three weeks, police tried to find them but failed.

What happened then is not known, but it seems as though Moti paid a ransom. According to some reports, it was as much as R50 million.

Whatever the case, 22 days after being kidnapped, the brothers knocked at the door of a home in the village of Masia Tshikwarani in Vuwani. The resident immediately recognised them. Police were called, and the boys reunited with their parents.

It stands to reason that the brothers were traumatised, as were their parents. So, it is not surprising that they quit South Africa and have now moved to Dubai.

Unfortunately, with the police not able to speak to the boys, the kidnappers will not be caught. In all likelihood, they will become even more bold and strike again.

Moti has left our country poorer. He was clearly a rich man who employed people and paid taxes. Now his millions will be fuelling the economy in the United Arab Emirates.

Moti is not the first South African to leave, and given the crime rate, he won’t be the last. His going, like those of other South Africans who can afford to leave, makes it that much harder to turn our economy around.