Murders
latest news & developmentsPolice resources might further drop in Nyanga, former ‘murder capital’ of SA
Provincial government and the City of Cape Town cannot plug the gap for national government’s responsibility for crime prevention, says DA
Record number of land and environmental defenders killed globally in 2020
In South Africa, environmental activist Fikile Ntshangase and police detective Leroy Bruwer were killed
Western Cape taxi violence claims more lives, wary residents eye looting in Gauteng and KZN
The ongoing taxi war in the Western Cape claimed the lives of three more people on Tuesday as the province braces itself for the possibility of the looting that has rocked…
Hachalu Hundessa’s murder sparks unrest in Ethiopia
The singer was a political activist, using his music to advocate for the rights of the Oromo
No headstone for Aviwe – the woman a country forgot
In the Eastern Cape, as a village buries yet another murdered woman, mourners struggle to understand where the freedom has gone
Killers stalk Glebelands as murder trial begins
Despite court action against eight murder-accused, the killings and extortion in the KwaZulu-Natal hostel have continued
Piled up bodies add to wheels of justice turning slowly for Cape murder victims
The number of pathology cases in Cape Town has shot up because of the Mother City’s spiralling rate of violent crime and homicides
He’s fighting for your dying day
Despite losing another assisted-dying case, Sean Davison will continue his advocacy
Glebelands hostel murder suspects to apply for bail
Several suspects, one of them a police officer, are expected to appear in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Monday
Complicit in a tide of hate and violence
South Africans are spewing vitriol on a website that is said to be stoking the fires of hate crimes.
The white right, women’s murders and a massacre of statistics
Flawed reasoning and distorted statistics characterise attempts by some on South Africa’s white right to prove black men are more violent than white.
Jub Jub murder trial postponed
The murder trial of Molemo "Jub Jub" Maarohanye and Themba Tshabalala has been postponed by the Protea Magistrate’s Court until November 30.