Grade 12 learner Hailie-Jade Coboza, 19 and her 40-year-old mother Lusanda were gunned down in their home in Sakhasonke Village, Walmer Location, on Thursday last week. Police spokesperson Captain Sandra Janse van Rensburg said the victims both sustained multiple gunshot wounds. She says information gathered at the scene led SAPS Read more
Bernard Biyela, the father of a Soweto teenager who was killed allegedly by a group of University of Johannesburg (UJ) students on Tuesday, said breaking the news of his son’s death to the teen’s mother was the most difficult thing he has ever done. Cebo Biyela,18, a grade 10 pupil Read more
Heartless killers, who set Ncamisile Zuma alight at the entrance of her home, should never find peace. These are the words of 29-year-old Ncamisile’s family from Sweetwaters, Pietermaritzburg, after her burning body was discovered outside their home on Monday, 31 March. Ncamisilel had attended a traditional ceremony at a neighbour’s Read more
The family of a young PhD graduate, who was shot outside a primary school in Grange, Pietermaritzburg, on Monday morning, believe he passed away while protecting his sister. Wandile Mkhize (30), from Imbali, had been transporting his sister to the school where she works, along with her two young children, Read more
Eastern Cape police have launched a manhunt after a missing teenage girl was brutally murdered. The body of Aviwe Ncekese, 17, was found at Grwarhu Location several days after she disappeared last week after leaving school. Police spokesperson Captain Welile Matyolo confirmed that a murder case had been opened. “According Read more
A Delft family was reeling in shock after their daughter was gunned down by unknown gunmen days before she had to start school. Bronwin van Willing, 18, from the Hague in Delft was sent to the local tuckshop by her grandmother to buy a loaf of bread but instead paid Read more
The family of Letsepileng Piti says they’re living in fear after the 64-year-old man was brutally killed allegedly by a group of men at Vlakplaas informal settlement, extension 32 in Vosloorus, Ekurhuleni on Monday, 16 December. His eleven-year-old daughter allegedly came home crying from a neighbour’s house, prompting Letsepileng to Read more
Skhethuxolo high school principal was murdered in Hammarsdale on Thursday afternoon. The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education confirmed the incident where the principal of Sikhethuxolo High School in Hammarsdale was murdered but could not provide further details at the time. “We are shocked and deeply saddened by the tragic and senseless Read more
Austin Snethemba Mashabane, who was 24 years old, was robbed and shot dead after the Summer Blaze event, in the early hours of December 1. According to The Citizen, Austin Mashabane was with his girlfriend when they were accosted by two armed men in the parking lot of Mbombela Stadium Read more
South African businessman Thabiso Maphike was shot in January and survived a senseless hit. Eleven months later, his assailants showered the man with a rain of bullets outside his shop, leaving him dead. Thabiso Maphike, a vocal community leader and a businessman was shot and killed on Friday, November 08 Read more