Two suspects have been arrested for the rape and murder of the young Khayelitsha woman Sinoxolo Mafevuka, police said on Monday. The two are expected to appear at the Khayelitsha Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, spokesperson Constable Noloyiso Rwexana said. “This afternoon a breakthrough was made into a murder and rape[…]
Another female UCT student has been brutally attacked, assaulted and raped off campus, the university said on Thursday. University of Cape Town spokesperson Gerda Kruger said they were only informed of the Tuesday evening attack late last night [Wednesday]. The university said it could not be certain, but it seemed[…]
A distraught and angry mother says the Paarl Hospital did not help her four-year-old daughter after she was raped last week – and was told to come in the next day. And even after the child was seen, says her mother, she was given medication without instructions on how to[…]
With hundreds of first-year UCT students participating in RAG O-Week’s Sax Appeal, the university’s management has advised students to be cautious. The university says its prioritizing the safety of its students by increasing security and consciousness on campus, says the head of communications Elijah Mohalola. UCT management has placed a[…]
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[…]
Cape Town – Three suspects have been taken in for questioning following the recent attacks on women in the vicinity of Rhodes Memorial – the latest of which was reported on Monday afternoon. It is believed that in the latest incident, the attacker assaulted the woman before attempting to rape[…]
A man accused of raping a student at the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Avenue House – or Azania – has been arrested, police said on Tuesday. The 24-year-old suspect would appear in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court on Thursday, police spokesperson captain FC Van Wyk said. University spokesperson Gerda Kruger[…]
A former driver for the ride-sharing service Uber was convicted by a Delhi court on Tuesday of raping a female passenger last year. The former driver, Shiv Kumar Yadav, was also convicted of kidnapping, in addition to rape while endangering the life of a woman, for an assault in New[…]
The government on Monday condemned the rape of a woman and the murders of two men in Rhodes Park in Kensington, Johannesburg. “This dreadful incident and similar criminal activities should be condemned by all peace loving South Africans,” spokesperson Phumla Williams said in a statement. She said everything possible was[…]
Police say two children – a two-year-old and a five-year-old – have been raped in separate attacks in the Indian capital Delhi, in the latest incidents of sexual violence against girls and women in the country. Delhi Police deputy superintendent Pushpendra Kumar said on Saturday that the two-year-old girl was[…]
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