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Cairo Shwarma King, a unique man

While the Cape Town community is still reeling after the brutal death of Mamdouh Moustafa, known fondly as the ‘Cairo shwarma king’, very little is really known about the roots of the Egyptian expat. The 68 year old food trader was found dead in Epping on Friday evening. Police and[…]

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Camps Bay hotel woman allegedly strangled

The woman found dead at a Camps Bay hotel in Cape Town on Wednesday is believed to have been strangled. This according to a family member of murdered American Gabriella Kabrins Alban. A Guatemalan man, understood to be her boyfriend, appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on a murder[…]

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Patel arrested for second murder

The Polokwane businessman on trial for killing his wife was arrested on Friday in connection with another murder committed two years ago, Limpopo police said. Rameez Patel, who was out on bail of R250 000, was arrested at his workplace in connection with the death of Tony Adams in Westenburg,[…]

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Woman found murdered at Camps Bay hotel

A man has been arrested after the body of a 39-year-old woman was found at a Camps Bay hotel on Wednesday afternoon. Details surrounding the incident remain sketchy, but it is understood the murdered woman was an American citizen on holiday in Cape Town. The 41-year-old suspect is believed to[…]

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Baron murder-accused apply for bail

Three men accused of kidnapping and murdering a Strandfontein man, who died without regaining consciousness, were remanded in custody after making a brief appearance in the Mitchells Plain Magistrate’s Court on Thursday. Ricardo Jackson, Romano Jenniker and Warren Challen appeared in the dock where they made a formal bail application.[…]

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Panayiotou does not intend to stand trial: State

Christopher Panayiotou’s lawyers did not reveal that the murder accused had dual citizenship because he never intended to stand trial, the Grahamstown High Court heard on Monday. Had it not been for investigating officer Kanna Swanepoel, the court would have remained ignorant about that fact that Panayiotou had applied for[…]

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Video challenges Israel’s Kasbah claims

An Israeli rights group on Monday released a video challenging the official Israeli account that a soldier was in danger when he shot dead a Palestinian teenager who threw a stone at the soldier’s jeep. Mohammad Kasbah, 17, was shot dead on July 3 by Colonel Israel Shomer after throwing[…]

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‘Girlfriend’ in dock after man beaten to death

A woman appeared in the Mitchell’s Plain Magistrate’s Court on Friday after a man was beaten to death with a hammer and burnt in his Rocklands home. The 27-year-old woman was apparently the victim’s girlfriend. Provincial police spokesperson Colonel Tembinkosi Kinana said the 43-year-old man’s body was found in his[…]

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Bail conditions relaxed for Patel

Three bail conditions imposed on a Limpopo businessman accused of murdering his wife were scrapped by the Polokwane Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. This after Rameez Patel’s defence lawyer, Tumi Mokwena, argued that his client needed some bail conditions to be relaxed as they were denying him the opportunity to oversee[…]

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Patel back in court

The Limpopo businessman accused of murdering his wife was expected back in the Polokwane Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. During his last appearance, Rameez Patel was granted bail of R250 000. At the time, Magistrate Mohammed Shaik said exceptional circumstances, namely that the couple’s children needed to be looked after, justified[…]

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