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Violence exacts huge toll on lives and a R1bn loss in the freight sector

Article Thando Maeko - 5 Sep 2019

The Road Freight Association puts the cost of the ongoing attacks on trucks at about R1.2-billion with 1 200 vehicles and cargo destroyed

Application denied: Rodrigues to stand trial for Timol murder

Article Aaisha Dadi Patel - 3 Jun 2019

João ‘Jan’ Rodrigues’ application for a stay of prosecution has been dismissed. He will stand trial for the 1971 murder of activist Ahmed Timol

Christchurch accused to face 50 murder charges

Article Agency - 4 Apr 2019

Christchurch gunman Brenton Tarrant will face 50 charges of murder and 39 charges of attempted murder

Officer in Ahmed Timol case to appear in court on murder charge

Article Jeanette Chabalala & Alex Mitchley - 29 Jul 2018

Almost 46 years since his death, the high court last year found that Timol died at the hands of apartheid security branch police while in detention

Oscar Pistorius’s murder sentence increased to 13 years

Article Jeanette Chabalala - 24 Nov 2017

The SCA in Bloemfontein has sentenced former Paralympian Oscar Pistorius to 13 years in prison for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp

#lionmama raises funds for woman who stabbed daughter’s rapists

Article Jenna Etheridge - 12 Sep 2017

She was charged with murder and attempted murder, but South Africans are pitching in to fund the 'lionmama's' legal fees.

Former Blue Bulls player convicted of murder

Article Sapa - 26 Sep 2014

Former rugby player Phindile Joseph Ntshongwana knew it was wrong when he killed his four victims with an axe, the Durban High Court ruled.

Tragic lesson of the Oscar Pistorius trial

Africa bogdan TagDiv - 12 Sep 2014

The African sense of kinship is more forgiving, but also very insular, writes Lee Mwiti.

SCA rules Mdluli may face murder charges again

Article Sally Evans - 17 Apr 2014

While corruption and fraud charges may be set aside, according to the Supreme Court of Appeal, Richard Mdluli could face murder charges again.

Oscar trial: Connecting shots heard to ballistic analysis

Article Sapa - 19 Mar 2014

The prosecutor has attempted to align what witness Michelle Burger heard to a ballistic analyst's reconstruction of Reeva Steenkamp's last moments.

Pistorius investigators get meeting with Apple

Article Gerald Imray - 27 Feb 2014

Prosecutors in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial have secured a meeting with Apple officials in the US over accessing evidence on his locked iPhone.

Pistorius case: Steenkamp family seeks closure

Article Sapa - 11 Feb 2014

As the anniversary of Reeva Steenkamp's death approaches, the family of Oscar Pistorius's slain girlfriend says they would like closure.

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