Marlon Johnson and his co-accused are expected to appear in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Friday for the murder of Metrorail train driver Piet Botha on the Netreg station platform in Bishop Lavis. Johnson, 22, was formally charged for the murder of 46-year-old Botha. Botha was killed in July[…]
It was a dark, harrowing journey that shattered numerous lives, but finally, Taliep Petersen’s children are starting to pick up the pieces, a decade after his death. Friday 16 December marked 10 years since his senseless murder, a day etched into the memories of many Capetonians. The music and theatre[…]
Steven Otter, the City spokesperson who was murdered in his home on Friday morning during a robbery, fought to the death against the intruders, Netwerk24 reported. Otter, 43, who was a former political spokesperson and who was presently part of the team at the City of Cape Town working on[…]
A man who raped and killed a 10-year-old girl, and raped his former girlfriend twice, was given five life sentences by the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday. In sentencing Jerome Amerika, 23, Judge Robert Henney said in such cases retribution and deterrence came to the fore. Amerika was last[…]
Four men accused of murdering teenager Franziska Blöchliger are due to appear at the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. The group is facing charges of murder, rape and robbery with aggravating circumstances. A post-mortem found that Franziska, 16, was strangled and suffocated and had sustained blunt-force trauma when she was[…]
A man suspected of murdering a Khayelitsha woman in her home and then dumping her body in a public toilet is expected to appear in court on Thursday, Western Cape police said. Her body was found in the toilet in RR Block in the informal settlement at 08:00 on Monday,[…]
Four men accused of murdering teenager Franziska Blöchliger are due to appear at the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. The four are facing charges of murder, rape and robbery with aggravating circumstances. A post-mortem found that Franziska, 16, was strangled and suffocated and had sustained blunt-force trauma when she was[…]
“She was my flower. You plucked her.” These were the words Shawn Lewis uttered to his 10-year-old daughter’s killer on Monday before he collapsed in the witness stand. Lewis, wearing a faded shirt bearing Shamonique Claasen’s picture, cried and struggled to breathe. His thin arms slipped from the wooden stand[…]
The pre-trial hearing of Henri van Breda, accused of killing his parents and older brother, has been postponed to February 3, 2017. The State has requested a postponement in order to provide all the particulars of their case to the defence. The State has until November 30 to give particulars[…]
A Cape Town attorney was killed in a drive-by shooting outside his home in Burwood road in Rondebosch East at about 10pm on Monday night. According to reports, Noordien Hassan was shot through a car window while standing outside his premises. Neighbours reportedly heard several shots being fired. Suspects fled the scene[…]
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