A man accused of killing his five-year-old stepdaughter claimed in court on Monday that the blood found on his jacket belonged to a sheep.
Even Dr Rhonan Ferreira da Silva, an experienced Brazilian forensic expert, was shocked when the body of British teenager Cara Marie Burke arrived.
A lawyer representing siblings accused of killing their parents told a court he was concerned that his clients would be subjected to ”trial by media”.
A brother and sister were charged in the Pinetown Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday for the murder of their parents.
A US woman was charged with murder after she allegedly drugged a pregnant woman, cut her baby the her womb and tried to pass the child off as her own.
Four men accused of killing a man by dropping concrete blocks on his head have pleaded not guilty to murder in the Grahamstown Magistrate’s Court.
The wife and father-in-law of a Polokwane businessman, who has been missing for nearly a month, have been arrested for his murder.
A 24-year-old Phutaditshaba man was jailed for life on Tuesday for the ”merciless” murder of an Evander diary farmer two years ago.
Five people accused of beating a man to death with a pickaxe handle nearly two years ago appeared in the Grahamstown Regional Court on Monday.
Three men convicted of the fatal shooting of five-year-old Danielle Esterhuizen were given life sentences on Wednesday.
An unknown number of armed men killed a 35-year-old pregnant woman in a suspected house robbery in the Bergvlei Complex in Villeria, Garsfontein.
A Macedonian journalist suspected of kidnapping, raping and killing elderly women before writing reports about the murders died in prison on Monday.
A Soweto petrol attendant was killed on Sunday by customers who refused to pay for their petrol, Gauteng police said.
Three toddlers who were found murdered in Rosemore, George, may have been killed with a blunt object, Western Cape police said on Friday.
Three men were jailed for life by the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Thursday for the murder of their employer, whose head they almost severered.
The Pretoria High Court has ordered the early release on parole this week of two convicted wife killers and a man who battered to death his mistress’s husband.
The Pretoria High Court on Monday sentenced Andrew Jordaan to life imprisonment for the murder of seven-year-old Sheldean Human.
Two life sentences are an appropriate punishment for convicted murderer Andrew Jordaan, the Pretoria High Court heard on Friday.
A man who doused a young woman with petrol and another who set her alight in 2006 were convicted of murder in the Cape High Court on Thursday.
An Eastern Cape man was the target of ”devastating” sexual taunts from his wife before he allegedly killed her, the Grahamstown High Court heard on Thursday.