Colleagues of murdered Bona magazine editor and Soweto TV chairperson Force Khashane on Thursday described him as ”a dignified man”.
Bona magazine editor and Soweto TV chairperson Force Khashane was shot and killed on Wednesday night, Soweto police said on Thursday.
The Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday heard that a man accused of six murders allegedly knocked down two of his victims and reversed over them.
The Supreme Court of Appeal on Friday dismissed an application by Najwa Petersen for leave to appeal against her sentence for killing her husband.
A man accused of killing his domestic worker’s grandson had his case postponed in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.
A court has reserved judgement in an appeal against the severity of sentence imposed on Dina Rodrigues and four others for murder.
A Khartoum court condemned four Islamists to death on Wednesday for the 2008 killing of a US diplomat and his Sudanese driver.
The son of one of Pakistan’s most prominent anti-Taliban Muslim clerics fears that his father’s murder could spark more sectarian violence.
Two men convicted of killing crime intelligence officer Carrim Alli will know on Thursday if their bid to appeal their convictions will be overturned.
One of the few doctors to provide late-term abortions in the United States has been gunned down in his Kansas church.
IT consultant Muzi Kunene and two co-accused have been convicted of the murder of Ballito estate agent Lynne Hume.
The defence lawyer of IT consultant Muziwendoda Kunene closed his final arguments in his murder trial in the High Court in Bloemfontein on Tuesday.
Ferdi Barnard, who shot and killed anti-apartheid activist David Webster 20 years ago, will not receive a presidential pardon any time soon.
The 18-year-old boy accused of killing a fellow pupil with a sword has pleaded guilty to all the charges against him in the Johannesburg High Court.
Former advocate Cezanne Visser, better known as Advocate Barbie, on Wednesday conceded that she would probably have committed murder for her ex-lover.
Two human rights campaigners were shot dead in Nairobi just hours after a government spokesperson accused their organisation of being a front.
Indictments were served on the Lotter double murder accused on Friday and the matter was transferred to the Durban High Court.
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/ 27 February 2009
A three-year-old girl was allegedly beaten to death by two brothers, aged five and seven, in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape police said on Friday.
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/ 26 February 2009
Najwa Petersen will appeal against her conviction for the murder of her husband Taliep in the Cape High Court, SABC news reported on Thursday.
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/ 25 February 2009
A witness to reggae icon Lucky Dube’s murder admitted to lying under oath in his statements to the police, a court heard on Wednesday.
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/ 23 February 2009
A struggle ensued between murdered reggae icon Lucky Dube and one of the accused before he was shot, the Johannesburg High Court heard on Monday.
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/ 18 February 2009
A cop investigating the murder of Lucky Dube told a court on Wednesday that he found unlicensed firearms in the room of one of the accused.
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/ 16 February 2009
The police officer who conducted an ID parade of suspects in the Lucky Dube murder told a court on Monday that the process was conducted properly.
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/ 13 February 2009
An Indian court sentenced a man and his employee to death on Friday for the murder of a girl — one of 19 victims in a case that shocked the country.
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/ 12 February 2009
Contradictory versions by two detectives of how two of the men accused of murdering Lucky Dube were arrested were heard in the Jo’burg High Court.
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/ 11 February 2009
A witness testifying in the Lucky Dube murder trial contradicted a statement given to police, the Johannesburg High Court heard on Wednesday.
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/ 10 February 2009
The trial of three men accused of the murder of reggae icon Lucky Dube was postponed in the Johannesburg High Court on Tuesday.
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/ 9 February 2009
A police captain on Monday denied reports of irregularities in the identity parade of the three men accused of killing reggae star Lucky Dube.
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/ 5 February 2009
A chance that a witness saw the accused in the Lucky Dube murder trial before an identity parade led to an adjournment in the Jo’burg High Court.
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/ 5 February 2009
Convicted murderess Najwa Petersen and her three co-accused will be sentenced next Wednesday, Cape High Court Judge Siraj Desai said on Thursday.
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/ 4 February 2009
A witness wanted to give police information on the murder of Lucky Dube but was warned that she could be killed, a court heard on Wednesday.
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/ 3 February 2009
A witness in the Lucky Dube murder trial identified one of the accused as having asked him to fix a green Polo, the Jo’burg High Court heard.