Survives kidnap attempt with advice from Oprah: Robyn Zieseniss 25, Port Elizabeth student-attorney

Survives kidnap-attempt: Port Elizabeth South africa candidate-attorney Robyn Zieseniss, 25, escaped from the claws of a black kidnapper because she remembered advice on Oprah Winfrey TV show fifteen years earlier. On Wednesday 11 March 2015 when she was interviewed by an Afrikaans journalist, the bruising on her left upper arm was the only visible sign of her determined fight to escape from the well-dressed man who had attacked and tried to drag her away in her Ford Fiesta. -------------------- BACKGROUND TO HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN SOUTH AFRICA: Kidnappings of young girls and women are taking on epidemic proportions in South Africa and even the US State Department has criticised the country 's law-enforcement agencies for not doing enough to stop the huge trade in Human Trafficking which emanates from South Africa and has created world-wide networks. Indeed only this week, a medical doctor accused of human-trafficking of very young girls in Durban was charged only with 'running a brothel' (see article South Africa Human Trafficking case of very young girls at Durban hotel against Indian doctor downgraded to "Running a brothel". article on: http://censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports/view/3351 -- Hundreds of young boys and girls and women are reported missing each year and many are found back by detectives who specialise in such cases, usually in brothels: forced into sex-slavery by internaitonal drug-dealers. Many of these sex-slavers are organised gangs from Nigeria, but there are many other international human-trafficking gangs active in South Africa, with its modern banking-infrastructure and large harbours an ideal central point from which to carry out this vile trade in human beings. ----------------------- Miss Zieseniss escaped however. The attractive young white woman was confronted after she had left a legal office located behind Goven Mbeki Drive and was walking to her car which was parked at Evert Hill -- close to Port Elizabeth's central business district. A reportedly "well-dressed black man" who stood smoking nearby walked up to her and asked in English why she parked in such a 'remote area'. She didn't feel threatened at that point but just as she replied that there 'was no other place to park' while opening her car-door the man grabbed her - and then she saw a knife in his hand. He ordered her to sit down on the floor in front of the driver's seat. She did this and he moved in behind the steering wheel. However he struggled with the gears of her car: he was unable to back it up, while telling her he was 'just looking for money'... That's when she remembered the advice she saw on an Oprah Winfrey show as a ten-year-old fifteen years earlier: -- "Even if you are injured, try and get away before the criminal can take you to the second destination. And if you can do so, scream. Scream with everything you've got inside you.' -- Zieseniss said she tried to jump from the car while her kidnapper was struggling with the gears. "But then he grabbed my arm. I fought for two minutes or more, struggling against him, and then I managed to get away and ran, screaming loudly. "Everybody just kept driving past,' she said. "However a woman on the fourth floor of a nearby building heard me screaming and phoned the police." Meanwhile the kidnapper left her Ford Fiesta on the scene and fled. "After the police showed up at the scene an hour and a half later, the police officers told me it was 'unnecessary to launch a formal complaint 'because the car wasn't stolen'. They tried hard to convince me to not submit a complaint'. However legal student Zieseniss insisted that a forensic team must take finger-prints. Only at that point did the police agree that she could submit an attempted kidnapping case. SAPS captain Sandra Janse van Rensburg said this attitude is 'being viewed in a very serious light and will be investigated. "There is no reason why a police officer can refuse to register a complaint nor encourage the complainant to register a case,' she commented. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Oprahs-advice-saved-me-in-hijacking-20150312 https://www.facebook.com/boerekrisisaksie/photos/a.178568022169751.48293.116298045063416/1109420292417848/?type=1&theater