Vincenzo Pietropaolo took less than three minutes to shoot his estranged wife nine times and make his escape, and though he thought there were no witnesses, it was ultimately his own car that betrayed him. Pietropaolo, a former treasurer…
Police have arrested 11 people for public violence and malicious damage to property in Limpopo. Dipompong village community members took to the streets on Wednesday, barricading several roads with rocks and other objects. Two buses were…
A woman from Klarinet in Witbank, Mpumalanga, who is accused of murdering her four children, made a brief appearance in the Witbank Regional Magistrate’s Court on Monday. The case against Zinhle Maditla was postponed to January 14 for a…
A man accused of raping his 10-year-old stepdaughter more than 900 times will remain in custody while the prosecution team readies for trial. The 44-year-old mechanic‚ who cannot be named in order to protect the identity of the girl‚…
Cecilia Steyn, the alleged mastermind behind the 11 Krugersdorp killings, is on Wednesday expected to return to the witness stand. On Tuesday, Steyn appeared agitated as she answered questions from state prosecutor Gerrit Roberts,…
The family of murdered student Hannah Cornelius arrived in court holding white flowers as sentencing proceedings got under way against her killers on Thursday. For some family members it was their first day in court – on what could be the…
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…
