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security guard
north-west

Smile, you’re on camera! Security guard caught rummaging through prosecutor’s files

Jerobejin Van Wyk, a 13-year-old Klawer boy was killed in February 2022.
News

Klawer man accused of killing 13-year-old admitted to Valkenberg

A 14-year-old Upington boy kil
News

A 14-year-old Upington boy killed over ‘dagga’ theft

security guard
North West

Smile, you’re on camera! Security guard caught rummaging through prosecutor’s files

Jerobejin Van Wyk, a 13-year-old Klawer boy was killed in February 2022.
News

Klawer man accused of killing 13-year-old admitted to Valkenberg

A 14-year-old Upington boy kil
News

A 14-year-old Upington boy killed over ‘dagga’ theft

Rape
Gauteng

Father faces jail for admitting to 425 counts of RAPE, child pornography

By Rorisang Kgosana02-07-2022 07:00

Father faces two life terms for pleading guilty to 425 counts of rape and the use of children in pornography.

Speaker
Gauteng

Gauteng Speaker charged for assaulting pregnant cop – AfriForum

By Rorisang Kgosana29-06-2022 08:00

Gauteng Speaker Mhlakaza-Manamela will face charges of assault and crimen injuria for assaulting a pregnant cop, AfriForum said.

National Prosecuting Authority NPA Rape Victim Accused Convict
News

NPA delighted with 17-year sentence handed to GRANNY RAPIST

By Tshepiso Mametela21-06-2022 06:34

The National Prosecuting Authority in the Northern Cape has no doubt the punishment fits the crime for a recently-convicted rape offender.

murder Sam Mbatha court
Gauteng

Deadly lovers’ quarrel leads to 30-year jail term for boyfriend

By Nthabiseng Madumo14-06-2022 10:23

The accused and his girlfriend had a lovers’ quarrel over another woman and he assaulted her and strangled her to death.

Limpopo men
Gauteng

Mother accused of POISONING her kids, KILLING one of them out on bail

By Nthabiseng Madumo13-06-2022 20:21

The mother allegedly gave her 7 years-old girl and a 16-years-old boy poison, after she was scammed of a large amount of money.

Jansen van Vuuren
News

Gerhardus Jansen van Vuuren convicted 11 years after slitting his girlfriend’s throat and fleeing to Brazil

By Storm Simpson13-06-2022 17:34

Jansen Van Vuuren murdered Andrea Venter in 2011. He was meant to stand trial in 2013 but he managed to flee the country. He will be sentenced on 27 July.

murder Sam Mbatha court
News

NPA: North West man sentenced to life for rape

By Nthabiseng Madumo10-06-2022 21:29

A Potchefstroom man was sentenced to life imprisonment for the rape of a woman in December 2020 after pretending to have found her a job.

Zandile Mafe
News

Mafe believed Ramaphosa took ‘trillions of Rands’ to help other countries, says State

By Storm Simpson09-06-2022 17:15

‘He was also convinced that one will find body parts of Albino people and women in the Pretoria, Limpopo and Gauteng homesteads and businesses of President Ramaphosa, as well as Ministers Bheki Cele and Blade Nzimande,’ said the State in court documents.

Zandile Mafe
News

‘A second great storm approaching South Africa’: The threats and demands behind Mafe’s terrorism charge

By Storm Simpson09-06-2022 16:06

The State alleges Zandile Mafe threatened there would be a ‘second great storm approaching South Africa’ if his demands were not met by 8 January.

Robben Island load shedding
News

NPA to exhume remains of missing Robben Island prisoner who died in 1966

By Storm Simpson08-06-2022 16:22

The family of political prisoner James Booi heard that he died in 1966 but they had no idea where he was buried. The NPA Missing Persons Task Team believes his remains are in a pauper’s grave in Sasolburg.

serial rapist
News

Ventersdorp SERIAL RAPIST robbed his victims before raping them

By Nthabiseng Madumo02-06-2022 19:44

Serial rapist, Lucky Lehloo was sentenced to two life terms for rape and a cumulative 293 years for other serious offences.

Life prison rape girl
KwaZulu-Natal

Poacher gets 28 years after harvesting horns from a black and white rhino

By Nathan Craig30-05-2022 20:46

Poacher Michael Kleinbaas Masuku was sentenced to 28 years imprisonment in Empangeni Regional Court on Monday.

Vusimuzi Dladla, NPA
KwaZulu-Natal

Vusimuzi Dladla gets three life sentences and 25 years for raping and robbing minors

By Nathan Craig27-05-2022 10:01

41-Year-old Vusimuzi Dladla was found guilty and on Thursday sentenced in the Verulam Regional Court for housebreaking, rapes and robbery.

rapist
Gauteng

Serial rapist sentenced to five life terms and 300 years behind bars

By Nthabiseng Madumo27-05-2022 08:43

The serial rapist, Njabulo Ngwenya, broke into his victims’ homes at night, rob and then rape them before fleeing the scene.

Railway track, Transnet, Petros Vinigran, jail, imprisonment, Pretoria Regional Court, theft of essential infrastructure, illegal immigrant, NPA, National Prosecuting Authority
News

Saboteur behind bars: Zimbabwean who stole railway tracks in SA jailed

By Reeshni Chaslyn Chetty26-05-2022 10:46

Illegal immigrant Petros Vinigran was sentenced to six years behind bars for stealing R132 000 worth of railway track belonging to Transnet.

Andile Lili, Poo Protestor, ANC, Convict
News

ANC’s faeces flinger Andile Lili guilty of incitement to commit murder

By Nathan Craig25-05-2022 10:53

Andile Lili, who lead the poo protests in 2014, was found guilty of incitement to commit murder after he said criminals should be killed.

former attorney
Gauteng

Former attorney pleads guilty to theft of more than a million rand

By Nthabiseng Madumo17-05-2022 20:59

The former attorney was convicted of six counts of theft of more than one million rands and was struck off the roll as an attorney.

Gerrie Nel, Major General Philani Johan Ndlovvu, Senzo Meyiwa, NPA
News

Adv Gerrie Nel says Maj Gen Ndlovu’s death won’t hurt Meyiwa trial

By Nathan Craig16-05-2022 10:58

Advocate Gerrie Nel, who represents the Meyiwa family, says Major General Philani Johan Ndlovu was not even a state witness

hawks accused tulbagh
News

Bangladeshi men accused of kidnapping, murdering compatriot out on R10k bail

By Storm Simpson13-05-2022 11:37

The Magistrate said she does not believe the accused are a flight risk as they own properties in the country and are asylum seekers in South Africa.

lawyer, eastern cape, fraud, money laundering, south africa, devil possession, bewitched
Eastern Cape

Lawyer sentenced after claiming devil bewitched her to commit fraud

By Reeshni Chaslyn Chetty28-04-2022 18:45

A 36-year-old lawyer has been sentenced for money laundering and fraud after claiming she was bewitched by the devil to do so.

farm murders
News

NPA: Three men sentenced to life imprisonment for farm murder

By Storm Simpson26-04-2022 20:19

The NPA welcomed the Limpopo High Court’s decision to put three men behind bars for life after they killed Alwyn Petrus van Zyl on his Waterberg farm in 2020.

Taxi trains
News

Taxi industry worker sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for burning train

By Storm Simpson22-04-2022 14:22

‘Only the taxi industry benefits when trains are put out of service,’ said Senior State Advocate Aradhana Heeramun.

murder Mpumalanga
News

NPA to oppose bail of man accused of rape and murder of girl, 11

By Reeshni Chaslyn Chetty05-04-2022 09:08

The NPA are planning to oppose Itumeleng Machabe’s bail after he was accused of raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl.

mcdonald's mcflurry
News

Ex-McDonald’s employee gets 10 years imprisonment for spitting in McFlurry

By Storm Simpson30-03-2022 13:16

Clement Seothaeng recorded himself and sent the video to his manager. He demanded R150k or the clip would be circulated on social media.

parents accused toddler
South Africa

Parents avoid life imprisonment after drowning infant and dumping body on mountain

By Storm Simpson17-03-2022 19:52

The State was pushing for a life sentence but the court handed both accused 20 years for murder and five for defeating the ends of justice. The sentences will run concurrently.

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