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A man was sentenced for beating to death his girlfriend. Getty Images/Gallo Images Man sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for the murder of his girlfriend.The man hit his girlfriend with a broomstick and fled the scene when realising she was no longer breathing.He was arrested a day after trying to flee the scene of the…

(Jackie Clausen/Gallo Images) A man who robbed a police officer and set his house alight with him inside has been handed a life sentence plus 65 years for various charges.Sergeant Sthembiso Dusse, 35, was murdered at his house in Esikhaleni in 2016.The killer was sentenced only hours before another officer was murdered during a shootout…

A Mpumalanga man was sentenced to life in prison for raping his 7-year-old stepdaughter in 2018. A Mpumalanga man was sentenced to life in prison for raping his 7-year-old stepdaughter in 2018.He told the victim's 4-year-old sister to keep watch at the door for the girls' mother.The mother later dismissed the rape allegation when approached by…

Taxi driver arrested while allegedly raping passengerPolice noted that Ndala's legal representative had argued Ndala was a breadwinner with three children, was a first-time offender and suffered from a chronic illness.But the prosecutors had countered that taxi drivers held a duty of care to protect their passengers – not harm them. "When handing down sentence,…