Further charge for RAF kidnapper who held woman 9 days captive
It will be clear in October as to when the trial against a man alleged to have kidnapped a woman to access her relative’s RAF money will be heard. He appeared in ...
Ex-Cato Manor ‘Death Squad’ cop faces judgment
Former police officer of the ex-Organised Crime Unit’s Cato Manor branch, Gonasagren Padayachee, is accused of shooting and killing Kwazi Ndlovu, 16, while Kwazi ...
Fatal crash: truck driver lied, was fundamentally dishonest
The acting judge who convicted truck driver Sibusiso Siyaya for a crash where 20 people died in Pongola found that Siyaya was deceitful in his evidence that he told ...
Zuma’s corruption trial set for next year
In a few months, the pre-trial in the corruption trial against former president Jacob Zuma will be heard in the Pietermaritzburg Court.
Man, 62, accused of child porn in the dock
It was expected that the 62-year-old man charged with child pornography will use the next week to sort out his legal representation before his next appearance in ...
Twenty years for truck driver
The truck driver who was convicted for the murders was sentenced on Thursday in the High Court, sitting at the Pongola Magistrate’s Court.
Tears at pre-sentencing proceedings for Pongola truck driver
Pre-sentencing proceedings in the form of aggravation and mitigation of sentence for the Pongola truck driver convicted of 20 counts of murder got under way on Wednesday ...
Court slams ‘serial killer’s trial delay
Following yet another delay in the trial against a man alleged to have used sanitiser on the scene of his alleged crimes and gone to the extent of allegedly biting ...
Lawyer woes for 62-year-old child porn accused
The Pinetown Magistrate’s Court was yet to hear the formal bail application for a 62-year-old man charged with being in possession of child pornography. He appeared ...
Fatal crash: truck driver found guilty
The truck driver convicted on Tuesday by the High Court, sitting at the Pongola Magistrate’s Court on 22 counts including 20 murders relating to a crash that happened ...
Five life terms for murder and rapes
On Tuesday a man convicted of the murder of his fiancée and the rape of his daughters begins serving his lengthy sentence of five life sentences handed to him by ...
Judgment against truck driver facing 20 counts of murder
On Tuesday, the High Court sitting at the Pongola Magistrate’s Court will hand down judgment to the truck driver charged with 20 murders stemming from a crash in ...
SA Navy vet murder trial to be heard next year
The pre-trial against a man charged with murder of a pensioner whose body was found dumped in Richards Bay six months after his murder in Malvern was finally concluded ...
Fear as prison rapist skips sentencing
A Westville Prison warden convicted of raping his children’s nanny was supposed to have been sentenced for the 2022 crime in the Pinetown Magistrate’s Court on Friday ...
Mom killed execution-style while breast-feeding
A man alleged to have shot and killed the parents of a 1-year-old by shooting them execution-style is due back in the Pinetown Magistrate’s Court in June this after ...
Road rage murder accused tells of trauma after murder
The Pinetown Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday heard how road rage murder accused pensioner Anthony Ball had suffered psychological trauma after he allegedly shot and ...
Double-murder accused teen’s trial delayed by lawyer request
It has been a year since a teen charged with a double murder, kidnapping, and defeating the ends of justice, all offences committed when she was 12, tendered in ...
Man accused of bludgeoning ex to death back in court in June
Vyaksha Sookdew is alleged to have been killed on December 21 and her body was found after the accused led police to it three days later. Her ex-boyfriend Sugandran ...
I was terrified, road rage murder accused tells court
The pensioner accused of shooting and killing a man in an alleged road rage incident described what unfolded at the scene in 2022 where he said that he feared for ...
Truck driver facing 20 murder counts awaits fate
The truck driver charged with 20 counts of murder in relation to a crash that happened in 2022 will know next week whether the High Court sitting in the Pongola ...
Road rage murder accused testifies
Dean Charnley was shot and killed in an alleged road rage incident in Kloof in 2022; pensioner Anthony Edward Ball who is charged with his murder took the stand ...
Ill lawyer sees teacher’s rape trial delayed yet again
On April 25, 2022, pupils from a Clermont high school picketed outside the Pinetown Magistrate’s Court when a teacher, charged with six counts of rape, made his ...
Man who killed fiancèe, raped girls awaits fate
A man who had been molesting his now 20-year-old stepdaughter since she was 14 was on Monday found guilty in the Durban High Court of killing the child’s mother ...
Man, 62, in the dock for child porn
A 62-year-old man who was arrested in a joint operation between the SAPS and the US Department of Homeland Security last month, appeared briefly in the Pinetown ...
Murder witness relieved as alleged killer son-in-law is denied bail
SANDF reservist Lwanda Mxolisi Zungu was refused bail in the Pinetown Magistrate’s Court charged with his wife’s murder. His two children and his mother-in-law witnessed ...