Top News of the Day: Disaster Strikes as the ‘Holiday Swindler’ disappears, load shedding moves to Stage 4

A group of angry customers is determined to do whatever it takes to reclaim their hard-earned money from Hello Darlings, a travel firm that failed to deliver on its promises. 

Social media users and clients refer to her as the ‘holiday swindler’. Tasneem Moosa, CEO of Hello Darlings travel agency has disappeared after defrauding more than 2000 clients from their dream holiday. 

News24 confirmed that a Telegram group was created on Tuesday afternoon with 2500 “disgruntled members” trying to get hold of Moosa. She has deactivated all her social media accounts and no one can reach her. 

“Several clients in the group indicated they have opened cases with the police, but were waiting for their case numbers,” writes Iavan Pijoos for News24.

A few clients have gone to the SAPS to open a case and are hoping to recover the money. 

Meanwhile, Eskom has announced that load shedding will move to stage 4 from 09h00 on Wednesday (9 March) until 05h00 on Friday (11 March). 

“In a media briefing on Tuesday, the power utility warned that the unpredictability of its units meant that load shedding might have to be extended this week,” and is “due to a further breakdown of units” reports Business Tech. 

Here are the top trending stories of the day. 

Headline: SA’s ‘holiday swindler’? Clients lose thousands of rands dished out for 5-star getaways – News24

Headline: Eskom moves to stage 4 load shedding – here is the new schedule – Business Tech 

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