Browsing: Criminal Law

A 19-year-old accused has appeared in the Middelburg Magistrate’s Court following a fatal New Year’s Day stabbing that left a 30-year-old man dead in Uitkyk.

Police have launched a manhunt after gunmen ambushed a family vehicle near Hazyview, killing two people and critically injuring a woman while a child survived.

Donovan Moodley has been denied parole nearly two decades after the kidnapping and murder of Leigh Matthews, with Correctional Services citing incomplete rehabilitation and ongoing risk concerns.

A Mpumalanga woman has been sentenced to 57 years’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to murder, kidnapping and several related crimes linked to the brutal killing of a man whose body was found bound and dumped in a river.

SAPS has appealed to the public for information after two women were found murdered inside a locked home in KaMagugu outside Mbombela, triggering a major investigation.

The Mpumalanga High Court has sentenced Mikah Shalamuka Willy Sithole to life imprisonment for the murder of his girlfriend, rejecting his version and finding no reason to impose a lesser sentence.

A Mozambican national has been sentenced to an effective 10 years’ direct imprisonment by the Skukuza Regional Court after pleading guilty to multiple rhino poaching related offences committed in the Kruger National Park.

The Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled that allegations over a child’s Road Accident Fund compensation and missing trust funds must be tested in a criminal trial.

The Limpopo High Court has scrapped an unlawful arrest trial after ruling that a magistrate wrongly denied police the chance to testify, calling it “a gross irregularity” that violated the right to a fair hearing.

SCA orders a fresh inquest into Theresa Wampach-Todd’s death, setting aside the magistrate’s findings and remitting the matter to Clanwilliam Magistrates’ Court for oral testimony.