Janine van der Post | Joshlin Smith's disappearance has unsettled my place of peace forever

The sleepy fisherman's village of Saldanha Bay has been in the news for all the wrong reasons this year. News24 Motoring editor Janine van der Post frequently visited her mother's hometown as she grew up and it was one of her favourite places in the world. But now the disappearance of little Joshlin Smith has tainted her place of peace with despair.

Sal-dan-ha Bay! Sal-dan-ha Bay! Sal-dan-ha Bay!

As a little girl, I would scream the name of my mother's hometown at the top of my lungs every time we drove up the West Coast to visit my grandparents. I would do this each time we entered the sleepy fisherman's village after asking my parents: "Are we there yet?" every five minutes on the two-hour drive in my dad's 1986 mint-green Ford Escort Sport Mk2.