When mother of two, Zarah Hector disappeared after leaving her place of work on the 15th of March 2016, an extensive search ensues. Nine days after her disappearance, Zarah’s body was discovered in a shallow grave on a farm in Groot Drakenstein on March 24 – 10 days after she had been reported missing. She Read more
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In this week’s Spotlight Minisode we take a look at Nkosinathi Phakathi, the man who is likely SA’s most prolific serial rapist; the death of a 7-month-old baby in Australia, allegedly at the hands of his South African father, Reinhardt Bosch; and the strange case of Robin Smith who police allege faked his own death
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Marilyn Jones and Shannon Wippenaar were very different women. Their backgrounds, locations and lifestyles should have meant their paths would never cross — but 14 years, 500km and one man would change that. Robin Cloete murdered his fiancé, Jones, in 1993 in Cape Town. In an almost typical intimate partner murder, Jones had decided she
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On the 17th of October 2013, 15-year-old Lee Adams set off to the local store to buy a loaf of bread. When he didn’t return home and then, a horrific discovery was made in a local abandoned school, the Adams family was about to thrust into a torrent of grief and devastation. Fifteen-year-old Lee Adams
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On the 18th of October 2007 South African music icon Lucky Dube was murdered in a botched hijacking. The 43-year-old musician was shot by three gunmen as he dropped off his son in the Rosettenville suburb of Johannesburg. Born in 1964 to an impoverished family in northeastern Mpumalanga Province, Lucky Dube released his first album
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