The lawyer for SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng Zola Majavu says he has written a letter to the SABC to request the way forward. Majavu’s statement comes after the Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed Motsoeneng’s application for leave to appeal the Western Cape High Court decision. He says: “What we have[…]
A former security guard accused of being behind the spate of murders committed in and around the Century City area, on Thursday entered a plea agreement in the Western Cape High Court. He was sentenced to seven life sentences, and an additional 40 years behind bars. Khangayi Sedumedi, 32, of[…]
Sentencing proceedings in the case against a Lavender Hill woman accused of kidnapping an infant from a maternity ward in 1997 is expected to be highly charged as the State calls Zephany Nurse to the stand on Monday. Monday is the first time in 15 months that Zephany will come[…]
A police chief forensic psychologist has told the Western Cape High Court that the man found guilty of beheading a Cape Town teenager, poses a high risk to society. Major Hayden Knibbs compiled a pre-sentencing report to assess the best possible sentence for Aljar Swartz, who in March was convicted[…]
The Western Cape High Court was on Thursday expected to sentence Aljar Swartz for beheading a Ravensmead teenager in October 2013. Last month, Judge Elize Steyn found Swartz guilty of premeditated murder as well as three counts of incitement to commit murder. Earlier this year, Swartz admitted to strangling Ravensmead[…]
The woman accused of kidnapping baby Zephany Nurse snapped at the public gallery on Tuesday, calling the people watching her trial a “bunch of clowns”. Judge John Hlophe called for a brief adjournment because the woman could not confirm who would testify in her defence in the Western Cape High[…]
“Yes, I was desperate. But not desperate enough to steal a baby.” This was the testimony of a Lavender Hill woman on trial in the Western Cape High Court for kidnapping baby Zephany Nurse 19 years ago. The soft-spoken seamstress, whose identity is being withheld to protect the new identity[…]
The accused in the Zephany Nurse kidnap case has stuck to her plea explanation during cross examination, and insists she did not know the infant had been stolen. The Lavender Hill woman, who can’t be identified to protect the identity of Nurse, who now has another name, claimed she was[…]
Zephany Nurse has slammed the media for reporting on what she has labelled as hurtful “lies”. In only her second public statement, the 18-year-old girl, who was snatched from Groote Schuur Hospital just three days after her birth, said she feels her “skin [has been] ripped off her face” because[…]
Details of how a desperate, childless woman managed to pass off a kidnapped baby as her own – even pulling the wool over her husband’s eyes – are expected to emerge on Monday when the woman charged with the kidnapping of 3-day-old Zephany Nurse almost 20 years ago will testify[…]
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