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Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary appeared in the Pretoria high court on Monday. File photo.Image: Facebook/Prophet Shepherd Bushiri

‘It’s not fair’: Shepherd Bushiri disappointed by fraud case delay

The case against self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary has been postponed to October. The Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) church leader and his wife appeared in the Pretoria high court on Monday. The National…

Portia ‘Pankie’ Sizani faces 16 counts of fraud and 10 counts of money laundering.Image: Eugene Coetzee

Judgment day for ambassador Sizani’s wife, accused in ‘ghost teacher’ scam

The education department’s former early childhood development (ECD) district co-ordinator, Portia “Pankie” Sizani, is expected to learn her fate on Thursday when the Port Elizabeth Commercial Crimes Court hands down judgement in her fraud…

Three men have been arrested after a mother and her son were found dead in Gamalakhe, KwaZulu-Natal.Image: iStock

Trio in court after mother and son found dead at home

Three men suspected of being behind the double murder of a mother and her son last week are expected to appear in the Ramsgate Magistrate’s Court on Thursday. The decomposing bodies of Doris June Ntozakhe, 73, and her son, Sfiso, 35, were…

Four underage girls opened cases of rape and sexual assault against an Eastern Cape man who lived in their street.Image: 123RF/Artit Oubkaew

Primary school boy accused of raping six-year-old girl

Provincial education authorities have established a task team to investigate the alleged rape of a grade 1 girl by an 11-year-old boy in grade 5 at Matsulu in Mpumalanga. The two children attend the same primary school. Department…

Mortimer Saunders, the man who confessed to killing three-year-old Courtney Pieters. File photoImage: Anthony Molyneaux

Judgment begins in case of murdered three-year-old Courtney Pieters

Self-confessed child killer Mortimer Saunders sat in the dock staring ahead as judgment began on Tuesday in the case of murdered three-year-old Courtney Pieters in the Western Cape High Court in Cape Town. Saunders‚ wearing a brown jacket…

EElectricity pylons. File photo.Image: REUTERS/SIPHIWE SIBEKO

City Power declares on war informal settlement residents after electricity theft

City Power has asked police to curb vandalism of electricity infrastructure in Johannesburg. City Power said it had opened a criminal case after a recent incident in which electricity poles were struck down in Unaville informal…