The crime statistics for 2015/2016 have provided South Africans with a reason to reflect on the country’s social behavioral patterns. This is according to Minister of Police‚ Nathi Nhleko‚ who presented a report on understating the sociology of crime in South Africa in Parliament on Friday. The analysis presented by[…]
Former Crime Intelligence boss Richard Mdluli and former policeman Mthembeni Mthunzi are expected to appear in court on Monday on charges relating to the 1999 kidnapping and murder of Oupa Ramogibe‚ who was married to Mdluli’s former lover Tshidi Buthelezi. Previously Mdluli denied claims that he had kept two dockets,[…]
Eleven years since the murder of six-month-old Jordan Leigh Norton, the family says they are finally moving forward. “We still celebrate her birthday every year. It gives us time to remember Jordan in a positive way,” the child’s grandfather Vernon Norton told News24 on Wednesday. He said Jordan’s birthday was[…]
Here are eight things you ought to know about the State’s case against Henri van Breda. 1. Henri van Breda handed himself over to the police after they informed his advocate, Pieter Botha, of his imminent arrest. He reported to the Stellenbosch police station on Monday afternoon, where he was[…]
Sentencing proceedings for former Paralympian and convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius are expected to continue at the High Court in Pretoria on Wednesday. Sentencing procedures have been set down for a week before Judge Thokozile Masipa, who originally sentenced Pistorius in October 2014. During Pistorius’s trial on Tuesday, the court was[…]
Former SABC TV and radio host Hope Zinde’s son was expected to appear in the Brits Magistrate’s Court on Monday in connection with the murder of his mother. North West police confirmed that the 28-year-old would appear in court after the discovery on Saturday of his mother’s body in the[…]
The son of former SABC board member and presenter Hope Zinde‚ whose body was discovered in the boot of her car at her home at an estate in Pecanwood near Hartebeespoort in North West on Saturday is reportedly being questioned by police over her murder. SABC news said that North-West[…]
One person noticeably absent at the trial and subsequent conviction of teenager Lee Adams’s killer was his mother. When Aljar Swartz was convicted of premeditated murder on Monday, other relatives of the 15-year-old Adams showed their support by dressing in purple. It was the beheaded teenager’s favourite colour. Adams’ aunt,[…]
The residents of Elsies River have expressed relief following the sentencing of the fourth suspect in the Valencia Farmer murder case. Farmer was brutally gang raped and murdered in Eerste Rivier in 1999. Elmario Maasdorp was the fourth suspect linked to the case. He has been sentenced to 23 years in[…]
The State has filed an affidavit to oppose Oscar Pistorius’s bid to appeal his conviction of murder with the Consitutional Court, eNCA reports.According to eNCA, the State said that it was in the interests of justice that Pistorius be sentenced on the crime he has committed, and that Pistorius does[…]
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