Pretoria: The North Gauteng High Court sentenced Ben Masilo Maselane from Soshanguve to two life sentences in respect of one count of rape and murder. He was further sentenced to six years imprisonment for housebreaking with intent to kidnap and six years imprisonment for kidnapping.…
The IFP welcomed the seven life sentences and 20 years imprisonment handed down to both the Mncwabe family killers by the Pietermaritzburg High Court and it believes that this sends a clear message to criminals that such acts would be met by the full might…
Pretoria - A Durban businessman who wanted his business partner killed so that he could be the sole beneficiary of R34 million from the Discovery policy has been arrested. The businessman hired a man to assist him in finding a hitman who would assassinate his…
The IFP calls on the KZN Police Commissioner, Lieutenant-General Mamonye Ngobeni, to ensure that the right killers of Nokuthula Magwanyana, the principal of Villa Maria School in Bishopstowe near Pietermaritzburg who was hacked to death in Table Mountain Road last month are arrested urgently. "The…
The IFP welcomes the sentencing by the Vryheid Regional Court of two men convicted of murdering Ms Thandazile Mpunzi, who was 20 years old. IFP spokesperson on matters related to the Department of Women, the Hon. Ms Liezl van der Merwe MP, called the sentencing,…
The IFP calls on government to prevent further attacks on the province's farming community after an Ixopo farm manager was killed in an apparent hit-style murder after completing his evening rounds of feeding cattle at the Lockwood Sugarcane Farm near Springvale Location on Saturday. "Mngoma…
The Inkatha Freedom Party is reeling from shock after yet another of its leaders was gunned down at Inanda near KwaMashu in Durban this afternoon. “We are shocked that the killing of our leaders in that area has not stopped. Mr Zwelithini “Fuhluza” Khumalo was…
Pretoria – The Acting Head of the Directorate For Priority Crimes Investigation (HAWKS) Major General Mthandazo Ntlemeza has set up a task team to investigate the murder of Warrant Officer Petrus Johannes Holz on Wednesday morning. A 50-year-old Holz, previously attached to Hawks’ Commercial Crime…
The Inkatha Freedom Party is shocked by the senseless killing of yet another one of its leaders in KwaMashu, north of Durban. Mr Mbhasobheni Biyela (56), the IFP Ward 39 Chairman was gunned down in a hail of bullets this evening as he was returning…
Another brutal farm murder as SAPS serve parliament with inaccurate figures "It is distressing that SAPS apparently supplied Parliament with completely inaccurate figures on farm attacks.– with tragically, yet another brutal farm murder reported today. "According to media reports, the body of Louis-John Botha of…