murder

Four individuals have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2019 murder of Oscar Hlatshwayo, a civil engineer at the Alfred Duma Local Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal. Hlatshwayo, who served as Executive Director in the Engineering and Infrastructure Services Department, was killed in a drive-by shooting in Ladysmith. The investigation, led by the Political Killings Task […]

A former preschool teacher, Amber Lee Hughes, has admitted to drowning her ex-boyfriend’s four-year-old daughter, Nada-Jane Chalita, in a Johannesburg High Court hearing on Thursday. The admission marks a significant turn in the case, which has gripped South Africa since the child’s death in January 2023. Hughes, 25, previously pleaded not guilty to charges of […]

A former apartheid-era police officer, Johan Marais, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for the murder of 23-year-old student activist Caiphus Nyoka. The crime occurred on 24 August 1987, when Marais and a colleague broke into Nyoka’s home in Daveyton, Johannesburg, and shot him multiple times. Nyoka was an active member of the […]

BAHAMAS- Police in Eleuthera are investigating a homicide and suspected attempted suicide after a South African woman was found dead on a vessel docked near Harbour Island, alongside a 40-year-old Mexican man discovered with severe arm injuries. The incident, reported shortly after 1 p.m., prompted a swift response from local authorities who were alerted to […]

JOHANNESBURG- Two men suspected of involvement in the 2023 murder of Mboneli Vesele, University of Fort Hare vice chancellor, Professor Sakhele Buhlungu’s bodyguard, have been arrested in Gauteng. Bafana Chiliza and Nkosiyazi Maphumulo were apprehended in Zakkariya Park on 21 June 2025, South African Police Service (SAPS) confirmed. Vesele was fatally shot inside a vehicle […]

Japan has executed Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the “Twitter Killer,” for the murder and dismemberment of nine people in 2017. The 34-year-old was hanged at the Tokyo Detention House, with the execution conducted in secrecy, as is standard in Japan, and only confirmed afterward. Shiraishi was convicted in 2020 of killing eight women, including teenagers, […]

Cape Town’s anti-gang unit is appealing for public assistance to solve the murder of André Naudé, a 55-year-old alleged underworld figure killed two weeks ago in a targeted shooting on Voortrekker Road, Parow. The attack, which occurred at approximately 14:40, left Naudé dead and a 61-year-old man injured, while two others, aged 45 and 54, […]

Twelve South African National Defence Force (SANDF) members have been arrested in connection with the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Ngwako Frans Mathipa, a senior Hawks investigator, in August 2023. The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) announced a breakthrough in the case, with two suspects arrested on Sunday, followed by ten more on Monday. Mathipa, […]

South Africa – Police in the Eastern Cape have opened two murder cases after discovering the burnt bodies of two young women in bushes at Khayelitsha outside Gqeberha on Wednesday morning. The victims are believed to be aged between 17 and 19. Police were notified about the bodies near bushes adjacent to Fourth Avenue in […]

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Gauteng Police confirmed Friday the arrest of multiple suspects in connection with the murder of JMPD officer Matome Mokoena, who was fatally shot while on duty in Vlakfontein. Mokoena and his colleague were responding to a robbery call when they stopped a vehicle matching the suspects’ description, leading to the deadly […]