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/ 19 September 2008
Thabo Amos Masinga, who slit the throats of two Baviaanspoort prison nurses in 2005, was sentenced to 50 years’ imprisonment on Friday.
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/ 19 September 2008
Jacob Zuma must accept the decision of the prosecutors to appeal the ruling of Judge Chris Nicholson, says DA leader Helen Zille.
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/ 6 September 2008
A 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death and another was sexually assaulted, allegedly by a 17-year-old boy, in Port Elizabeth on Friday
South Africa has among the highest murder rates in the world, but what appears more difficult is formulating a response.
Two Durban siblings accused of murdering their parents made an impassioned plea on Thursday for donations to fund their defence.
A senior police officer has been shot dead near Stanger in what is believed to have been a deliberate ambush targeting the officer.
A pupil who is accused of killing a fellow schoolboy with a sword believes he was told by a ghost to become a satanist, a court heard on Wednesday.
A skeleton was found in Zone 15 in Garankuwa on Sunday, the fourth in the area over the last three months, North West police said on Monday.
Hundreds of mourners bid farewell to Jacques Pretorius on Friday, the boy who died in a sword attack at a Krugersdorp high school earlier this week.
Mark Scott-Crossley, one of the men who threw a worker’s body to lions in Hoedspruit in 2004, was released on parole on Thursday.
The final witness in the Taliep Petersen murder trial testified on Thursday, as proceedings were postponed to October 20 for closing arguments.
One of the men charged with musician Taliep Petersen’s murder on Wednesday said he knew he would be caught by the police.
Music legend Taliep Petersen pleaded not to be killed as he lay bound on the floor, one of the men charged with his murder told a court on Tuesday.
One of the men charged with the murder of entertainer Taliep Petersen pleaded with a co-accused not to carry out the killing, a court heard on Monday.
UK police have arrested 2 500 people during a clampdown on knife crime prompted by a series of murders, the government said on Monday.
One of the people accused of murdering Taliep Petersen shed tears on Monday when questioned about a show of affection for a baby in the Petersen home.
The body of a missing 16-year-old girl was found in a pit latrine behind the house of a man arrested for her murder near Taung in North West.
One person was shot dead as African National Congress (ANC) supporters left an election launch rally in Durban on Saturday afternoon.
An accused in the Najwa Petersen murder trial has been questioned about an incident where Najwa allegedly asked him to ”talk her out of the case”.
The man who says he has confessed all in the Taliep Petersen killing faced a grilling on Thursday over contradictions in his statements.
The lawyer of a man accused of helping siblings murder their parents has demanded in court that any confessions be given to him in writing.
One of Najwa Petersen’s co-accused told a court on Wednesday that she tried to persuade him not to incriminate her in the murder of her husband.
One of Najwa Petersen’s co-accused on Wednesday showed the Cape High Court how she allegedly fired the shot that killed her bound husband, Taliep.
A newborn baby stolen from the maternity ward in Barberton Hospital in Nelspruit has been found dead, police said on Tuesday.
Court hears about the hysterical screams of Avhatali Netshisaulu’s widow when her husband was inside the boot of his burning car.
The founder and publisher of the economic publication Who Owns Whom, Robin McGregor, was found murdered in his bathroom on Tuesday.
The man accused of recruiting the killers of musician Taliep Petersen took the stand in the Cape High Court on Tuesday to proclaim his innocence.
Armed robbers shot and killed two police inspectors on Monday morning in Mount Frere, Eastern Cape police said.
With a wail of sirens, three of the Waterkloof Four were driven away from court on Monday afternoon to begin their 12-year sentence.
An Eastern Cape man was jailed for 20 years on Friday for killing his five-year-old stepdaughter.
Two tik addicts who doused a woman with petrol before setting her alight in an argument over a cellphone have each been jailed for 24 years.
A Middelburg man accused of bludgeoning his five-year-old stepdaughter to death after quarrelling with her mother has denied killing the child.