In a remarkable turnaround, it took only four days from arrest to sentencing after Alexandria police spotted a man behaving suspiciously on the town’s main road. The South African Police Service District Commissioner says this is a…
A Port Alfred detective has been praised for exceptional dedication after two life sentences were handed down to rapist for separate incidents in Nemato in 2016. The man was one of a group who gang-raped a woman in Nemato on March 4,…
The crimes committed more than two decades ago by former crime intelligence boss Richard Mdluli and Mthembeni Mthunzi were so serious that the appropriate sentence should be a jail term. This was the argument put forward by the state…
Double life sentences were handed down to Jacob Esel, who raped, strangled, cut and killed a 47-year-old woman and attempted to rape another elderly family member in Barkly West. “Esel received life sentence for murder, life sentence for…
An Ennerdale father who “mistakenly” shot dead his teenage son will know early in 2019 if he will be charged with culpable homicide instead of murder. Sibusiso Emmanuel Tshabalala was initially charged with murder. His lawyer, Chewe…
