A Mpumalanga man has been sentenced to life for killing his wife. A 38-year-old man has been sentenced in the Mpumalanga High Court to life in prison for murdering his wife. The court also sentenced him to an additional 10 years behind bars for assaulting his five-year-old daughter with a panga and burning her on a…
Ntiyiso Xilumane has pleaded guilty to killing his girlfriend. A 26-year-old man, who pleaded guilty to murdering his former girlfriend, has been sentenced to life in prison.The man was sentenced in the Limpopo High Court in Polokwane on Tuesday.The NPA in Limpopo welcomed the sentence.A man who admitted to strangling his ex-girlfriend to death at…
The Grahamstown High Court has sentenced a man to 20 years in jail for killing his 74-year-old mother. Kwanele Mqeni, 36, was sentenced on Friday. Mqeni was out on a warning on another separate matter for assaulting family members. Police spokesperson Captain Jackson Manatha said Mqeni killed his mother hours after being released from prison. Manatha said, in July…
Mario Marco, Getty Images A Northern Cape man has been sentenced to 20 years for raping a 13-year-old girl.Thato Ncheyagae, 23, was sentenced in the Kuruman Regional Court on Friday after being found guilty of raping the girl on New Year's Day.That night at around 22:00, the girl from Gamasepa Village went with friends to…
Two men received life sentences for killing a cop. Two Mpumalanga men has been found guilty of a string of crimes, including a triple murder for which they were sentenced to life in prison. The men murdered a police officer, her husband and their own accomplice on 1 December 2019.They shot and killed the police…
Kataza the baboon. Facebook / Baboon Matters The City of Cape Town has asked the public not to feed a baboon that has relocated to Tokai. The baboon, known as Kataza or SK11, is slowly being integrated into the Tokai troop. Video footage, however, shows humans feeding Kataza. The City of Cape Town has requested that Kataza…
As SA Rugby moves to determine which franchises will go to Europe in future, Rassie Erasmus has noted several potential benefits for the local game should that route be followed.The national director of rugby believes the high world rankings of Wales, Ireland and Scotland mean PRO Rugby is competitive and that fans will eventually identify…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…