A Durbanville man accused of raping an 8-year-old girl over a period of four years is expected in the Bellville Magistrates Court this week. The 34-year-old suspect was arrested after the complainant, understood to be the child’s mother, approached an attorney with the allegations, seeking advice. The woman referred the[…]
Seething Mitchell’s Plain community members are demanding that bail be denied to a 49 year old man accused of the rape of a 5 year old girl in Mitchell’s Plain. The man made his first appearance at the Mitchells Plain magistrate’s court on Wednesday. He will be held at the[…]
The Mitchells Plain Crisis Forum has called for calm at court on Wednesday as a 49 year old man accused of the rape of 5 year old girl is due to make his first appearance. The man was taken into police custody on Sunday, after the girl reported him to[…]
Western Cape police have arrested a 49 year old man in connection with the rape of a five year old girl from Rocklands in Mitchells Plain on Sunday. Residents were alerted to the alleged rape of the girl in the bushes near Kapteinsklip station. The City of Cape Town’s Law[…]
Police Minister Fikile Mbalula said he is focussing his efforts at ensuring that all gender-based violence crimes are made easier and less traumatic to report to the police. During the launch of a gender-based violence and protection of vulnerable groups indaba on Thursday in Centurion, Mbalula conceded that there are[…]
By Abubaker Abrahams Bonteheuwel residents are seething following the arrest of a 53-year-old man accused of raping a six-year-old girl and then giving her R5 as payment. According to reports, the perpetrator is allegedly known to the family and is in police custody. The suspect appeared in the Bishop Lavis[…]
A group of artists working in photography, film, performance and visual art have united to honour the lives of girls and women who have been lost to rape and murder in South Africa. Under the exhibition title We Cannot Be Silent, the creative collective is looking beyond news headlines, delving[…]
Community members in Mitchell’s Plain have slammed the continuous delays in the Stacha Arendse murder case. Randy Tango is accused of the kidnapping, rape and murder of then 11 year old girl in Tafelsig. Her body was found on a field in Tafelsig in March. He allegedly volunteered to search[…]
Howard Oliver, who raped and murdered 16-year-old Franziska Blöchliger, has been sentenced to two life terms plus 15 years in jail in the Western Cape High Court. The sentence was handed down on Wednesday. Oliver, 28, was found guilty of raping and murdering the teen on March 7, 2016 while[…]
Two political parties who took part in the debate on the violence against women and children have suggested an amendment to the Constitution to allow for death sentence. Both the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the National Freedom Party NFP want the country to revisit calls for a referendum on[…]
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