Child killings
Premier Mabuyane to visit family of slain girl (6) from Mdantsane
The little girl was attacked in Mdantsane last week while walking to a shop to buy sweets. The child’s body was later found in a bush along the road.
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Suspects arrested for murder of Kraaifontein boy (11) due in court
Little Duran Visagie was struck by a stray bullet earlier this month during what is believed to have been a gang-related shooting.
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Family desperate for answers after missing boy (3) is found dead in car
On Tuesday, Diego Booysen’s body was found in a car parked in a backyard at a home just a few doors from his own in Newtown.
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Boland boy, 3, died hours after going missing
He went missing along with a four-year-old girl on Monday.
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Police arrest KwaMashu teenage boy (15) for the murder of his cousin (4)
Minenhle Mhlongo’s body was discovered in a bush close to her home on Heritage Day. She had been left in the care of a relative while her mother went to work the day before.
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Toddler found dead in Orange Farm to be laid to rest today
The little girl’s body was found in a bin in Lakeview, south of Johannesburg last week.
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Body of missing girl (3) found dumped in bin in Orange Farm
It’s understood the grim discovery was made by a man who was combing through some of the waste earlier in the afternoon.
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Soweto mother gets 20 years in jail for killing son, daughter's attempted murder
The 42-year-old was arrested in 2018 in Greenvillage in Dobsonville, Soweto after she fed poisoned food to her children and later shot them with a service pistol.
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Sentencing proceedings for woman convicted of killing her child postponed
The woman was arrested in 2018 in Greenvillage in Dobsonville, Soweto, after she fed poisoned food to her children, aged eight and 14.
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‘Enough is enough’: CT women protest against child murders, GBV
The group stood on a road where they formed a human chain close to the local police station.
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Tazne van Wyk’s alleged killer shouldn’t have been out on parole - Ramaphosa
President Cyril Ramaphosa visited the little girl’s family amid a public outcry following the court appearance of 54-year old Mohydien Pangakaer.
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Girl (2) killed after gunmen open fire on PE mother and her children
The girl died on the way to hospital while her brother was shot in the leg and their mother was wounded in the stomach.
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Gauteng pupil (15) found stabbed, raped & burned to death in Germiston
The body of 15-year-old Laticia Jansen from Graceland Education Center in Elsburg was discovered by community members in a bush on Friday.
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Kuilsriver father (59) charged with son’s (12) murder
The man was arrested after residents recognised him as the man who had been reported missing along with his son in November.
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PE police investigate after decomposed body of child found
The decomposed body was discovered by a passerby on Sunday in Gelvandale.
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Police hunt suspects after missing Limpopo girl (11) found dead
The young girl was reported missing on Thursday after she failed to return home from school.
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Mpumalanga mother found guilty of murdering her 4 children
Zinhle Maditla pleaded guilty to four charges of murder.
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Worcester man handed 25-year sentence for murdering girlfriend's baby
Sentencing was handed down after the court last week found Reginald Bezuidenhoudt guilty as charged.
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NC woman accused of killing son (2) to remain in custody after court appearance
She was apprehended over the weekend after she allegedly bashed her little son with a rock in Jakkalswater in Nababeep.
