Court gavel. The Free State High Court has sentenced a 58-year-old Welkom lawyer to three life sentences for raping five minor children. In 2019, two of the victims, who are the lawyer’s stepdaughters, disclosed the abuse to their mother. Investigations revealed that the abuse began in 2007, when the youngest victim was seven, and continued…
File Image| Katiso ‘KT’ Molefe appeared in the Alexandra Magistrate’s Court in Johannesburg, August 20. A police detective known as Witness B has described how one woman indirectly boasted to her about how alleged criminal cartel member and murder accused Katiso ‘KT’ Molefe would make the Armand Swart case disappear. This, she says, happened when…
FILE | A man throws water on a shack engulfed in flames in Langa, Cape Town, in this image captured on 16 April 2022. Two people in their sixties died in a house fire in Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal, despite the efforts of bystanders and the emergency services to quell the blaze. The fire gutted the house…
The Cradock Four Memorial garden. High ranking officials in the apartheid police, Gerrit Erasmus and Izak “Krappies” Engelbrecht, both took the stand at the Gqeberha High Court in the re-opened Cradock Four Inquest. They both denied all involvement in the 1985 killings of Fort Calata, Matthew Goniwe, Sicelo Mhlauli and Sparrow Mkonto. Erasmus and Engelbrecht…
School classroom with tables and chairs. Police fired stun grenades outside Milnerton High School in Cape Town to disperse a group of demonstrators. This after a discussion between the school principal and protesters. Members of various civic organisations and political parties are demanding that learners who were allegedly involved in a violent bullying incident at…
FILE | Person using cane as a walking guide. Limpopo Health MEC Dieketseng Mashego says people with visual impairments and those who are partially sighted should live in a world that is accessible, safe and easy to navigate. She handed over 65 white canes in Polokwane as part of the white cane awareness campaign. The…
School classroom Ninety-five percent of schools in Gauteng have not been inspected for structural safety in the past five years. This is contained in a written reply to a question by the Democratic Alliance in the Gauteng Legislature. DA Gauteng spokesperson on Education Michael Waters says only 105 of the more than 2 000 public…
Accused number one in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial, Muzi Sibiya. The State in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial is expected to continue probing accused number one, Muzi Sibiya, on his evidence in chief when the case resumes at the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday morning. Five men are on trial for the 2014 murder…
Reigning ICC World Test champions, South Africa, have a fight on their hands in the second and final cricket test against Pakistan in Rawalpindi. After winning the toss and electing to bat, the hosts scored 259 for the loss of five wickets on day one. Saud Shakeel was unbeaten on 42 at stumps. Day one…
File image | Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga chairing the Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of Criminality, Political Interference and Corruption in the Criminal Justice System in Pretoria on September 22, 2025. A police detective known only as Witness A broke down at the Madlanga Commission on Tuesday as he concluded his two-day testimony. Witness A, a…
