Smile FM Ryan O'Connor Breakfast Show

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In 2017 South African medic Gerco van der Venter was kidnapped and sold to an Al-Qaeda group in Mali. His family last heard from him in January via a video recording it received from Gift of the Givers. The Ryan O'Connor Breakfast Show got an update from his wife Shereen and found out how the family has been coping.
11 May 2023 2AM English South Africa News

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