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…
The consumer group wants the USDA to release information about previously approved testing methods the department now says are unsatisfactory because of false positives. Published: June 12, 2026, 12:05 am Consumer Reports says the USDA should release information about Salmonella testing methods for some chicken products that it first deemed adequate but under the Trump
For more than thirty years I have represented the families on the other end of a foodborne outbreak — the parents of children on dialysis with hemolytic uremic syndrome, the survivors of a contaminated hamburger or a bag of spinach, the people left planning funerals. I built a career holding companies accountable when the food
More people are sick in a multi-country Salmonella outbreak in Europe mainly affecting children and young adults. A total of 83 confirmed cases had symptom onset between December 2025 and mid-May 2026. Another 24 cases identified in 2026 have not yet been sequenced and may be part of the outbreak. At least 20 people have