JOHANNESBURG – Zinhle Maditla faces possible multiple life sentences after pleading guilty to premeditated murder. The woman admitted to feeding her four children rat poison. Maditla took the stand for the first time, to ask the court for mercy on Tuesday. A pre-sentencing report says the 25-year-old may have been stressed about how she would take care of her children […]
by Greg Nicolson Greg Nicolson 1 day agoChilling evidence of hostel murderDUT students go on rampage Cyril Ramaphosa’s response to gender-based violence could be one of the defining issues of his presidency. He’s talked the talk, now he must act. On Wednesday in Parliament, he has that opportunity. Addressing the media in Parliament on Tuesday 17 […]
Six life sentences and an additional 129 years imprisonment was meted out to a Nigerian national for human trafficking and related charges after he kept three young girls hostage to work as sex slaves. Judge Natvarlil Ranchod, sitting in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, on Wednesday cited experts as saying that human trafficking is […]
Bob Hewitt will remain in prison in Port Elizabeth after the Minster of Justice and Correctional Services ordered a review of the convicted paedophile’s parole. by James Richardson Image by Ichigo121212 from Pixabay Just three days after Correctional Services announced that convicted paedophile Bob Hewitt would be released on parole the Ministry of Justice have announced the suspension of that decision. […]
Wednesday 18 September 2019 – 10:13am JOHANNESBURG – The Constitutional Court has ruled that it is illegal for parents to smack their children in their homes. The court has upheld the South Gauteng High Court’s 2017 ruling against corporal punishment in the home. The high court struck down the defence of reasonable chastisement, saying physical discipline […]
Local police launched a formal investigation into the girl’s death almost a week later, following outrage from parents and Kenyan lawmakers. Tamerra Griffin A high school student in Kenya killed herself last week after her teacher shamed her for bleeding through her school uniform when she was on her period. Now parents and lawmakers are […]
By Sharika Regchand A 21-year-old man who allegedly raped a boy at a mosque in Copesville was on Monday granted bail of R1 000 by the Pietermaritzburg Magistrate’s Court. The man, who can’t be named because he has not yet pleaded to the charge, is alleged to have gone into the mosque toilet where he […]
BY NOMAHLUBI JORDAAN WARNING: Not for sensitive readers Shocking details of how Nicholas Ninow raped a seven-year-old girl at a Dros restaurant in Silverton emerged on Monday when he pleaded guilty in the Pretoria high court. Ninow, 21, disclosed what he did to the child when she opened the toilet door as he took drugs, and […]
Sara Roebuck When you are raped the authority to make decisions for yourself is removed. Your attacker reduces you to an object to be devoured, a thing discarded in an alley, a body to be left in a nightclub stockroom, a person to be thrown aside on a bedroom floor. More venomously, a woman to […]
Hell is empty And all the devils are here. Shakespeare’s famous line from The Tempest comes to mind as South Africa reels from another epidemic of violence by men against women. The most recent spate of killings and rape has sparked outrage in a country with one of the world’s highest murder rates. According to […]