Police have arrested two parents for the abduction of their own children.
The father, mother and her boyfriend allegedly attacked the little girls’ maternal grandfather with a brick before the kidnapping on Saturday.
Police say all three suspects have been charged with kidnapping and pointing of a firearm.
When the Daily Voice visited their Seawinds home on Monday afternoon, the police pulled up with the kidnapped sisters, aged four and six, safe and unharmed.
Their oupa Raymond Phillips says his granddaughters have been in their care since they were babies.
He says the children had been living with his wife in the Northern Cape but they recently came back to Cape Town to attend a funeral.
“My daughter left her children here with us because she and her boyfriend are on drugs,” he explains.
“I knew they both could never take care of the children, so my wife went to the Northern Cape so they could grow up in a peaceful environment.”
He says when his wife returned, the desperate couple, both aged 37, saw an opportunity to take the children.
The 62-year-old oupa says he was outside his house on Saturday at around 7am when he was attacked with a baksteen.
“One of the suspects hit me with a brick and went inside and pointed at my wife with a gun.
“It was my daughter, her current boyfriend and the father of the children.”
“The girls were sleeping and they started to cry when they woke up because they do not know their parents, to them they were strangers.
“They took the children and left in a car and then I went to inform a relative about the incident.”
According to relative Catherine Le Roux, 58, who lives in neighbouring Overcome Heights, the children’s father allegedly offered to pay the mother and her berk R4000 to kidnap the girls.
Catherine says when Raymond told her the kids had been taken, she immediately started asking around and was told the father lives in Blue Downs.
“Yesterday morning I called the detective handling the case and told him I will show him where they are,” she says.
“We asked around there and learnt that he lived in a flat at the Fountainhead Complex, where I spotted him.
“The detective cuffed him and he found other suspects too and the children were rescued.”
Police spokesperson Sergeant Noloyiso Rwexana has confirmed that the children are back in the care of their grandparents.
“Three suspects aged 27 and 37 were arrested on charges of kidnapping and pointing a firearm.
“They will appear in court once they are charged,” says the sergeant.