The South African Police Service (SAPS) and Ndlambe Municipality joined forces on 26 November at the Mamityi Gidana Stadium to host a community awareness event in support of the international 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against…
It was an emotional crowd that gathered in the shade of the tree outside Cassel’s Funeral Services in Albany Road, Makhanda, last Friday. A week earlier a teenager had been raped less than 500 metres away. The group of mostly women from…
The Siyakha Victim Support Centre, a non-profit organisation based at Kenton Police Station, recently celebrated their third year of community service to the elderly and abused in the greater Kenton-on-Sea area. Founder Mike Konaha’s…
When teenage twins turned to a pastor at a local church for help with a personal matter in 2018 he took advantage of the situation and raped them instead. Justice has now finally been served with the pastor, 50-year-old Freddie Jafta,…
A 27-year-old man from Ga-Tamatis has been found guilty of raping a disabled 14-year-old girl, and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Lebowakgomo regional court. The man, whose name has been withheld to protect the identity of the…
A 36-year-old man who raped multiple women and filmed their private parts in an attempt to blackmail and silence them was slapped with three life terms and an additional 134 years behind bars. Percy Matimba Chauke of Kagiso, west of…
Durban forensic pathologists will need to determine whether a woman, whose severely decomposed body washed ashore on Thursday, had her hands, head and feet removed by unnatural means. The gruesome discovery of the headless corpse was made…
The last thing 33-year-old Khatera saw were the three men on a motorcycle who attacked her just after she left her job at a police station in Afghanistan’s central Ghazni province, shooting at her and stabbing her with a knife in the…
An alleged would-be rapist got more than what he bargained for when his victim bit off his tongue while he was allegedly trying to rape her at Tsomo Mission on Saturday night. The 65-year-old woman was sleeping alone at her home when the…
After a year behind bars, Mannana Tsabane, the nanny alleged to have murdered the child she was hired to take care of, is finally on trial at the Benoni magistrate’s court in Ekurhuleni. On Tuesday, the pathologist who had examined…
Less than five months before she was left bloody and bruised — with a crude swearword carved into her forehead — Moesha Magotha suffered a devastating blow when her mother died in a car crash. Now, the 18-year-old from Port Elizabeth, who…
A young woman is in the intensive care unit after being savagely stabbed and beaten in an attack that has shocked a small Eastern Cape farming community to its core. DispatchLIVE was provided graphic photographs of her face and body on…
Police minister Bheki Cele expressed concern about liquor outlets which violate lockdown regulations by hosting illegal gatherings and operating beyond 10pm. He said the department has also been inundated with complaints and reports about…
A total of 24 children were killed during level 5 of the Covid-19 national lockdown, according to the latest quarterly crime statistics released by Eastern Cape safety and liaison MEC Weziwe Tikana-Gxothiwe on Thursday. The data released…
KOWIE TURNOUT: Nearly 200 Port Alfred residents took part in the Move One Million protest last Saturday, lining the Nico Malan Bridge with placards denouncing farmer murders, gender based violence and government corruption, and receiving…
