Child killings
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.
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Murder accused mom ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluation
The 24-year-old Zinhle Maditla abandoned her bid for bail in the local regional court on Monday.
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KZN man arrested for murder, sexual assault of stepdaughter (2)
It's understood the suspect assaulted the toddler to death after she soiled herself, but he claimed she stopped breathing.
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State argues for Courtney Pieters’s killer to get life in prison
Mortimer Saunders has admitted to feeding the child ant poison, before hitting her over the head and choking her because she was annoying him.
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WCED receives 13 reports of child abductions, attempted kidnappings since August
The reports have come from various communities across Cape Town.
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Oyingcwele Zokufa (2) to be laid to rest
The little boy's body was discovered in a shallow grave along the N2 highway near Philippi last week just days after he'd been abducted from his family home.
