Talk of the Town

Child Murder

Latest news & developments
DANGER: Remember to set alarms and to report any suspicious activity Picture: IGOR STEVANOVIC/123RF
4 YEAR OLD STABBED

Body of missing four-year-old KwaMashu girl found, relatives questioned

The body of a four-year-old girl was discovered with multiple stab wounds in KwaMashu, north of Durban, on Friday. In a statement on Tuesday, the KwaZulu-Natal social development department said that the toddler went missing from her home…

  • TimesLIVE
Orange Farm residents gather as wetland vegetation is burned to try flush out an alleged kidnapper on Tuesday.Image: Thapelo Morebudi
CHILD MURDER

Orange Farm residents out for revenge after child killings

A Gauteng community is tearing itself apart as neighbours turn on neighbours and police flee from airborne stones. Residents are on edge after the bodies of two children, aged six and eight, were discovered at the weekend. This follows…

  • TimesLIVE
Previledge Mabvongwe‚ 9‚ whose body was found in Cape Town on Thursday. Image: Pink Ladies
9 YEAR OLD

Discovery of 9-year-old’s body fuels Cape Town’s horrific child murder rate

Days after a Cape Town man was jailed for 50 years for murdering a teenage girl‚ the discovery of a 9-year-old’s body sparked another murder hunt in a city where children are killed at the rate of more than one a week. Previledge…

  • TimesLIVE